., mandy cohen, which is under the direction of secretary becerra's health and human services. because one of the truly disturbing parts of the story is the c.d.c. completely dropped the ball and ignored the situation long after it had been discovered this select committee on the c.c.p.'s report found that local officials had begged the c.d.c. to come in and investigate after they found the lab and the c.d.c. repeatedly ignored them and even hung up on them. i've spoken to the city manager myself, and they said their cries for help from the federal and state were completely ignored. it was only after representative costa, who represents that area, got involved that the c.d.c. came to investigate. even then, their investigation was completely inadequate. incredibly, they didn't test any of the actual samples. so some of these were labeled with e. coli or hepatitis or whatever it was. and they just sort of assumed that that was accurate. some of them were labeled in some indecipherable code and they didn't bostonner to test those. there was a refrigerator labeled ebola found by l