Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19

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The politically appointed HHS spokesperson and his team demanded and received the right to review CDC’s scientific reports to health professionals.

The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 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 agency’s 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.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809?fbclid=IwAR13HDi0vntWNCeaGw9AQhzWfXzmgcl5NaFTG3mXA3GLKmfVDZC1mfw7uRo

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1. We pretty much knew this would happen when the data was ordered to be funneled to the

White House spin machine instead of to the scientists and doctors who actually need it.