The former top health official said he was invoking the 5th Amendment to avoid the possibility that Republicans on the Senate committee might try to prosecute him for perjury.
Nevermind his more recent boneheaded proclamation that masks don’t prevent disease spread.
That was an attempt to get people to stop hoarding masks so that there would be enough for hospital workers etc. until production had a chance to ramp up. Deliberately trying to mislead the public like that was a bad idea in retrospect, but the goal behind it was good.
That was an attempt to get people to stop hoarding masks so that there would be enough for hospital workers etc. until production had a chance to ramp up. Deliberately trying to mislead the public like that was a bad idea in retrospect, but the goal behind it was good.