Dr. Caitlin Pedati resigned suddenly without comment last Wednesday. Of note, it turns out Pedati is not an epidemiologist by training, only by title after being hired by the Reynolds administration as Iowa’s medical director. According to Belin, Pedati is a pediatrician by training but practiced only briefly before changing to a career in public health.

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