Alex Azar

Alex Azar (2017)

Alex Michael Azar II (* 17th June 1967 in Johnstown , Pennsylvania ) since January 2018 Minister of Health of the United States and head of the Department of Health and Social Services .

Azar was as entrepreneurs operate and politicians of the Republican Party . During the George W. Bush presidency from 2005 to 2007 he was Deputy Secretary of State for Health and Social Services. From 2012 to 2017 he was President of Lilly USA, LLC , a subsidiary of global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company .

education

Alex Azar is a graduate of Yale Law School .

Minister of Health

On January 24, 2018, Azar was confirmed by the United States Senate by 55 votes to 43 as the successor to the resigned Tom Price as the Secretary of State for Health and Human Services .

As Minister of Health, Alex Azar was partly responsible for the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic . At the beginning of the spread of the virus in the USA, Azar could not prevail with the other authorities with the desire for more tests for the virus. The lack of reliable data led to a delay of about a month in the country's response to the pandemic , according to research by the New York Times . Alex Azar headed the government's corona task force until the end of February 2020 before being replaced by Vice President Mike Pence .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Robert Pear: "Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Alex Azar as Health Secretary" New York Times, January 24, 2018
2. ↑ Michael D. Shear, Abby Goodnough, Sheila Kaplan, Sheri Fink, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland: "The lost month: How a failure to test blinded the US to Covid-19" New York Times, March 28, 2020