The Early Career of COVID Czar Robert Kadlec

Robert Kadlec, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), looks on during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing concerning government preparedness and response to the coronavirus, in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 11, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

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The name Robert Kadlec may mean nothing to you, but anyone who has watched Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War era satirical masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” will quickly get the idea of who this man is.