"Memoli had no choice, he insisted: He was following the direction of three HHS officials—Dorothy Fink, then the acting secretary; Heather Flick Melanson, chief of staff; and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy—who told him, in no uncertain terms, that the pause was to continue..."
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Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
