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Good morning. Today’s the deadline for the White House to nominate a CDC director, or else it won’t be able to keep NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his acting role at the other agency. STAT’s Executive Editor Rick Berke and Washington reporter Daniel Payne got the inside scoop last week on how the search has been going. We’re on the lookout for news.