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The White House has settled on a replacement for Rochelle Walensky, who’s stepping down from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the end of this month, we scooped Thursday.
SCOOP: Biden plans to pick MANDY COHEN as the next director of the CDC, per sources familiar.
Cohen — former North Carolina health secretary and Obama health official — would replace ROCHELLE WALENSKY, who steps down this month.
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Mandy Cohen still needs to complete her formal vetting and President Biden’s official announcement is likely a week or more away, but the former North Carolina health secretary and current Aledade executive is the pick.
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Biden officials had eyed Cohen in prior years for other roles like administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or secretary of Health and Human Services, drawing on her ample work overseeing health insurance programs in North Carolina and at CMS during the Obama administration.
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