Former head of CDC makes 20 million USD working for Merck

Another reason you can't trust the CDC:

"Julie Gerberding, MD, who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2002 to 2009,^{1 2} and joined Merck & Co. as president of Merck Vaccines division in January 2010,^{3 4} recently sold 102,073 shares of her Merck stock for approximately $$9.119 million. This represented just under half of her shares in the company.^{5 6 7}

"Following the transaction, which was completed on Jan. 13, 2020, Dr. Gerberding still owns 106,099 shares of Merck stock worth about $9.478 million.^7"

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Before taking the helm of the CDC, candidates should be required to sign an agreement that they will not go to work for Pharm cos at large salaries afterwards. This is retroactive bribery.