Dr. Lee Norman, fired as Kansas health secretary, says he was 'Fauci'd' by COVID politics [View all]
The job of guiding Kansas through a generation-defining public health crisis for nearly two years fell to Lee Norman. Until recently, and suddenly, it didn’t.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly recently fired him as Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment after months of reducing his role as the face of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
She quickly replaced him with Janet Stanek, a longtime hospital administrator who’s worked for the past 21 years at Stormont-Vail Health in Topeka.
During the first several months of the outbreak, Norman, 69, dressed in a white lab coat, was at Kelly’s side at widely broadcast briefings.
That stopped in early summer, when Will Lawrence, the governor’s chief of staff, became concerned that Norman’s blunt style further strained relations between Kelly and Republican legislative leaders.
At: https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2021/12/03/lee-norman-fired-kansas-health-boss-says-covid-politics-crux/8852270002/
Dr. Lee Norman, ousted today as Kansas' Health and Environment Secretary, during his last press conference on the job on Thursday.
Dr. Norman's frank approach to discussions on the ongoing Covid pandemic caused friction with GOP-dominated state legislature.
"A lot of the time, partisanship is trumping public health," Dr. Norman lamented. "And it should be the other way around."
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