• President Biden’s reported new pick for the next Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director laughed during a 2022 videoed interview about how states informally coordinated COVID-19 mandate including no NFL games.
• The likely nominee, Dr. Mandy Cohen, was North Carolina’s health secretary for at least part if not all of pandemic.
• “She was like, ‘are you gonna let them have professional football?’ And I was like, no. And she’s like, OK neither are we,” Cohen said, before laughing about the interaction with her counterpart in Massachusetts.
• Cohen, a former North Carolina health secretary, said she communicated with the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts the most and described a conversation about whether to allow them to play professional football.
• “She was like, ‘are you gonna let them have professional football?’ And I was like, no. And she’s like, OK neither are we,” Cohen said, before laughing about the interaction.
• Still, she said she believes a more formal structure is needed about such rules, according to Fox News.

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