With help from Carmen Paun Nirav Shah, shown here when he was director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention during the pandemic, is running for governor of Maine. | Robert F. Bukaty/AP FROM CDC TO GOVERNOR’S MANSION? Over the past few years, some state health officials at the forefront of the Covid-19 pandemic response have endured an onslaught of blowback — mostly from the right — over measures like lockdowns, school closures and vaccine requirements.