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Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) Commissioner Deidre Gifford, MD, MPH, who is tied to the Konstantinos Diamantis scandal, will be retiring next month.
Commissioner Gifford served as head of OHS since the start of Governor Lamont’s second term in office in January 2023.
In the governor’s first term, she served in several leadership positions, including as acting commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health beginning in May 2020, during which time she was responsible for leading the administration’s covid response and became the governor’s top advisor on the plandemic.
Gifford pushed propaganda about social distancing, which was never based on science.
She clung onto the false mask narrative, saying ridiculous things like "masks are our friends" a full year into the plandemic, no less, and well after the evidence was clear that masks not only didn't work, but created new problems, like speech issues for young children learning to talk during the plandemic.
She also served "on the front line" of Connecticut's vaccine strategy.
"We are ready to get going and start vaccinating any child that wants to be vaccinated. You know it's an absolutely terrific development. The safety and efficacy information that they shared publicly so far is very very very good," she said about covid vaccines for children on April 12, 2021, just a couple weeks before Pfizer's “cumulative analysis of post-authorization adverse event reports” was finished.
That's the document with 9 pages of horrific adverse effects from Pfizer's covid vaccine post-marketing experience -- adverse effects that included death.
But in April 2021, Gifford downplayed the potential for adverse effects from the covid vaccine, and even said, "the were no serious adverse reactions, and these are not related to the vaccine itself, but it's more related to the process of receiving a vaccine."
She even pushed the idea of booster shots just four months after the vaccines first rolled out in mid-December 2020.
One month later, in May 2021, at least 18 teenagers in Connecticut developed heart problems after getting covid shots, and one teenage boy died from myocarditis.
Despite the mounting adverse effects from covid vaccines, Gifford would go on to suggest that covid was a "vaccine-preventable" disease, and repeat the covid plandemic narrative.
She was behind those evil commercials designed to prey on fear and scare the unvaccinated into taking a dangerous and potentially deadly experimental medical product.
One of the commercials even featured a mom saying she couldn't imagine not getting her child vaccinated -- this was four months after the article came out about how Connecticut teens, especially boys, were developing myocarditis as a result of covid shots -- and just in time for the new school year.
"The COVID vaccines are safe and remarkably effective, even against the Delta variant. You are far more likely to suffer severe disease, hospitalization, or death if you are not vaccinated," said Gifford on September 1, 2021.
“For the last several years, Deidre has provided exceptional service to the people of Connecticut, most notably serving as our administration’s chief advisor on the COVID-19 pandemic and helping to formulate our policies and guidance to protect the health and wellbeing of our residents during that challenging time,” Lamont said.
“I firmly believe that she is one of the reasons why many people consider Connecticut’s response to this global virus to be among the best," he continued. "She has been dedicated to developing policies and data-driven solutions that expand access to healthcare, improve disparities, and drive costs down. In addition to providing valuable public policy guidance, she has become a good friend, and I appreciate all that I have learned from her. I wish her nothing but the best on this well-earned retirement.”
“Since June of 2019 it has been my privilege to work alongside Governor Lamont, his team, and an amazing group of commissioners to serve the people of Connecticut,” Gifford said. “I will always be grateful to the governor for trusting me to be by his side during some of the most difficult days of the pandemic, and to serve as his advisor in the years since."
Prior to joining Connecticut state government, Commissioner Gifford served from 2016 to 2019 as deputy director for the Center of Medicaid and CHIP Services at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington, DC, where she oversaw the full scope of Medicaid functions at the federal agency. From 2012 to 2015, she served as Medicaid director in the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and from 2005 to 2011 she was co-founder and project director of Rhode Island’ s multi-payer Medical Home demonstration, one of the nation’s first and most enduring multi-payer payment reform initiatives.
OHS is the state agency responsible for implementing data-driven strategies that promote equal access to healthcare, improve the value of healthcare, contain costs, and ensure better healthcare systems for the state’s residents.
