Whistleblower: Feds helping evacuees lacked virus protection

“We take all whistleblower complaints very seriously and are providing the complainant all appropriate protections under the Whistleblower Protection Act," HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a statement.

Gomez's office said the complaint was filed by a high-ranking official at the Administration for Children and Families, an HHS social service agency. The whistleblower was among a team of about a dozen employees from the agency who had been deployed to help connect the evacuees with government assistance that they might qualify for to ease their return. The team was there from mid-January until earlier this month.

Although team members had gloves at times and masks at other times, they lacked full protective gear and received no training on how to protect themselves in a viral hot zone, according to a description provided by the congressional office. They had no respirators. While helping the evacuees, team members noticed that workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were in full gear to protect them from getting sick.

Gomez's office said the high-ranking whistleblower complained to superiors and was given the choice of being reassigned or being fired. Gomez said as far as he knows none of the workers from the agency has become infected with the virus.

blind leading the blind, this or them should have been placed in their own bubble n breather. fact there is a suit.

MORE ANONYMOUS BULLSHIT... Nice.

I guess the whistleblower was disappointed none on the plane had the virus to begin with.

Quick! 'Out' the whistleblower! How dare he?

This Trump administration is so inept, they will cause the coronavirus to spread faster.

The democrats and media are using the virus for political purposes. This is how low some people in America have sunk.

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We won't be safe in the world until Trump cesspool & all his cronies are behind bars.

Here we go , another bullshit artist wanting to write a book.

mehdirhasan Beware, GOP will call you out.

And right on cue the GOP & Trump are attacking the whistleblower. Kicking her out of her job & threatening to fire her. Trump threatens & tries to intimidate everyone, Judges , jurors, citizens, immigrants & even children like Greta. His list of crimes never ends.

If only there was some government agency tasked with dealing with these types of issues....

Amazing how this corrupt administration has made the conscientious ' whistle blower' into a term of derision...

Total incompetence and insanity. Even your average person would know that this is ignorance of every safety precaution in existence.

mehdirhasan thanks for fighting against medicareforall so hard MSNBC...Millions of Americans are completely vulnerable and because over half the country can't afford a 500 dollar emergency there'll be many who go into work SICK and spread this thing faster than a brush fire. thanks again!!!

This is from video taken by The Telegraph on YouTube. The first responders had no protective gear at all.

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