CDC Director Rochelle Walensky was bad enough. Biden’s new choice is worse. Mandy Cohen was North Carolina’s health secretary for five years. The last two years of her tenure were during the pandemic and lockdowns. Her authoritarian track record is something else.

Mandy Cohen, then-secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, went so far as threatening to sue a school district for rescinding one-size-fits-all quarantine policies in fall 2021, more than a year after publicly declaring schools are a trivial source of COVID spread.

Now executive vice president and CEO of Aledade Care Solutions, Cohen also suggested she had made decisions about COVID restrictions without independently evaluating scientific evidence.