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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums🚨🚨🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19
Last edited Sat Sep 12, 2020, 01:40 PM - Edit history (1)
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809
The health departments politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, in what officials characterized as an attempt to intimidate the reports authors and water down their communications to health professionals.
In some cases, emails from communications aides to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other senior officials openly complained that the agencys reports would undermine President Donald Trump's optimistic messages about the outbreak, according to emails reviewed by POLITICO and three people familiar with the situation.
CDC officials have fought back against the most sweeping changes, but have increasingly agreed to allow the political officials to review the reports and, in a few cases, compromised on the wording, according to three people familiar with the exchanges. The communications aides efforts to change the language in the CDCs reports have been constant across the summer and continued as recently as Friday afternoon.
The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports are authored by career scientists and serve as the main vehicle for the agency to inform doctors, researchers and the general public about how Covid-19 is spreading and who is at risk. Such reports have historically been published with little fanfare and no political interference, said several longtime health department officials, and have been viewed as a cornerstone of the nation's public health work for decades.
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Okay, everybody surprised by this, raise your hands.
Seeing no hands........
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🚨🚨🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19 (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
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drray23
(7,619 posts)1. I dont understand why people dont just resign.
Like what the hell? If I was asked to falsify my scientific reports I would refuse and resign if I had to. Dont people have integrity left ?
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)2. We're seeing some lawyers jump ship.... Maybe others will follow.
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)3. More..
Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)4. K&R for exposure
MustLoveBeagles
(11,583 posts)5. K&R
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)6. Morning kick
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)7. This is important kick