Oh My - Official report from CDC - Some Trump Admin Covid Guidance was not-Updated with WP link

[malaise]

grounded in Science as a result of Trump and his goons interference.

Take credit for that you MoFoing murderer!
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Breaking on CNN
Adding Washington Post Link and snip
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/15/cdc-removes-some-trump-era-guidance/

CDC identifies public-health guidance from the Trump administration that downplayed pandemic severity
The analysis was done to promote public trust and ensure that the agency’s coronavirus guidance ‘is evidence-based and free of politics,’ a memo says.

March 15, 2021 at 2:13 p.m. GMT-5
Federal health officials have identified several controversial pandemic recommendations released during the Trump administration that they say were “not primarily authored” by staff and don’t reflect the best scientific evidence, based on a review ordered by its new director.

The review identified three documents that had already been removed from the agency’s website: One, released in July, delivered a strong argument for school reopenings and downplayed health risks. A second set of guidelines about the country’s reopening was released in April by the White House and was far less detailed than what had been drafted by the CDC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A third guidance issued in August discouraged the testing of people without covid-19 symptoms even when they had contact with infected individuals. That was replaced in September after experts inside and outside the agency raised alarms.

[dchill]

1. Indeed. But somehow I knew that.

[malaise]

2. We all knew that

but the report confirms our understanding of reality

[dchill]

5. Ah, reality. The latest endangered specie.

[Hugin]

3. Most important revelation of the day.

Someone needs to be held accountable.

[malaise]

4. Way more than criminal negligence

Some call it genocide since he wanted no testing to keep the numbers down

[Hugin]

9. I seem to remember Princess Sparkle was personally involved, too. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

6. Brought to you by the Department of No Shit, Sherlock!

I guess they're admitting what was known by anyone who had been paying attention at the time. No doubt we'll be seeing a lot of this "but for interference by Trump and his goons" stuff in the coming months and years.

[malaise]

7. How many thousands died because of this

There must be consequences

[GoCubsGo]

11. Lots of people died, and countless left with permanent damage.

We still don't even know how many longhaulers there are, or what are the long-term consequences of being infected. I really hope it's not just the underlings who suffer the consequences, as is usually the case with criminal GQPers. Those at the top are the ones who really need to pay for this.

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. I don't know what the numbers are, but I suspect the permanently damaged outweigh the deceased.

F'ing criminal. No one expected "perfect", especially anyone with even a scintilla of insight into that horrid administration. But a low-mediocre result wouldn't have been considered a complete catastrophe, nor a dereliction bordering on criminal. People would have been resigned to "Well, what can you expect? That probably was their best effort."

While the actual result might have been in the ballpark of "best effort" it falls so short of acceptable as to give synonyms new, more biting definitions.

I hate to use this kind of hyperbole, but their approach, effort and result bordered on "Nuremburg."

[Initech]

8. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

[malaise]

15. Clyburn and the House Committee had already told us this

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/trump-administration-influenced-cdc-guidance-to-suppress-covid-testing-house-panel-says.html


The Trump administration sought to suppress Covid-19 testing in the United States last year by softening guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on who needed to be tested, a House panel said Monday.

In August, the CDC revised its Covid-19 testing guidance to say that people who don’t have symptoms “do not necessarily need a test” even if they were exposed to an infected person. The move was widely criticized by public health specialists and politicians, who said testing asymptomatic people is an important part of identifying and cutting off chains of spread.

Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brett Giroir, who led the Trump administration’s testing effort, at the time firmly denied allegations the White House was pressuring health officials to change the guidance.

But the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Monday released newly obtained emails from a political appointee within the Department of Health and Human Services that indicate he pushed for the new guidance.

[gratuitous]

10. And so this passes from . . .

"Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man" into the realm of officially established fact. Now, whether the person you're talking to believes the CDC is another issue, but at least you have solid ground to assert that the Trump administration actively worked against the scientific and public health experts in getting misinformation out to the public. Actions that continue to mess up our response to the pandemic to this day.

[OMGWTF]

12. Mass Murderer

Add this to the miles-long list of Shitler's crimes.

[KPN]

23. THIS

[TheRickles]

13. Is there a link yet? Thanks.

[malaise]

18. Here

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/15/cdc-removes-some-trump-era-guidance/

CDC identifies public-health guidance from the Trump administration that downplayed pandemic severity
The analysis was done to promote public trust and ensure that the agency’s coronavirus guidance ‘is evidence-based and free of politics,’ a memo says.

March 15, 2021 at 2:13 p.m. GMT-5
Federal health officials have identified several controversial pandemic recommendations released during the Trump administration that they say were “not primarily authored” by staff and don’t reflect the best scientific evidence, based on a review ordered by its new director.

The review identified three documents that had already been removed from the agency’s website: One, released in July, delivered a strong argument for school reopenings and downplayed health risks. A second set of guidelines about the country’s reopening was released in April by the White House and was far less detailed than what had been drafted by the CDC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A third guidance issued in August discouraged the testing of people without covid-19 symptoms even when they had contact with infected individuals. That was replaced in September after experts inside and outside the agency raised alarms.

[IronLionZion]

14. Any criminal charges or civil lawsuits?

It would be GOP/Trump voters who believed these lies and died for it.

[malaise]

19. We can hope - this is at least criminal negligence

Others call it genocide

[wiggs]

16. Probably the same across all policy areas...will take years to expose and undo the damage. nt

[malaise]

20. You are correct but that this one had deadly consequences

Trump and his cronies should die in prison

[wiggs]

21. that article was in WashPo...I want to know how and when the part of the general public

that DOESN'T read WashPo or watch MSNBC will find out about ALL the misdeeds, irresponsibility, corruption, and deceit. Will someone with bipartisan credibility, such as past iconic journalists and news anchors, compile and report on everything...all in one place and time?

Really important that this administration doesn't get whitewashed and papered over.

[malaise]

22. I'm betting Rachel covers this tonight

She hasn't missed a beat on Covid 19. We need to send that segment of her program to our family and friends. Truthfully it should be the lead story on all networks at Prime Time tonight.

[Duppers]

30. Excellent point. Nightly news should cover this...

But they won't. Newspapers all over the country should pick up the story, but will they?? Especially in red states.

The PTB don't cover all the truth regarding rethugian lies, especially tRump's.

[malaise]

33. Rachel opens with this

Go Rachel!
Says Trump went after CBC's credibility with a baseball bat

[druidity33]

24. Weird phrasing...

"The review identified three documents that had already been removed from the agency’s website: One, released in July, delivered a strong argument for school reopenings and downplayed health risks. A second set of guidelines about the country’s reopening was released in April by the White House and was far less detailed than what had been drafted by the CDC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A third guidance issued in August discouraged the testing of people without covid-19 symptoms even when they had contact with infected individuals. That was replaced in September after experts inside and outside the agency raised alarms."

my bolding.

Why is the "first" document in July, the "second" in April and the "third" in August? Should they not go chronologically?

[malaise]

26. I did wonder about that

They should start with his lies from January and February and of course the interview with Woodward

[gibraltar72]

25. Duh.

[TomDaisy]

27. it's been reported that IDIOT IVANKA over-rode CDC doctors on public-facing documents

reshaping the reports to make daddy look better

[Duppers]

31. And the results of that were criminal. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. And people still don't believe he was motivated by his ego . He never had covid

Nor did Malaria.

[malaise]

29. I have always been suspicious

I really want the truth about that one -

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. Me too. Don't believe in coincidence. Especially with him.

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- He wanted people to think Covid no big deal. What better way than to get it and recover from it like you recover from a paper cut.

- He was down in the polls

- He claims he and Malaria have it!

- He shows ZERO proof, not even a simple "positive" piece of paper - for himself and his wife.

- He decides to do a showy helicopter ride out if WH, despite it being an easy drive. Dressed in a suit!

- He takes NO covid WH experts!! From his team of covid experts. No Fauci. No Birx ???

- He goes to a hospital, WR, that's a military hospital and they take orders from the commander in chief only. Not like a regular hospital.

- He moves into a WR private presidential suite, where he can control press coverages with privacy.

- His shill doctor has since been accused of drinking on job. He controls press coverage.

- Miraculously, he's AOK in 3 days! He walks off helicopter like nothing new.

- Meanwhile,. His wife, just days after she's caught on tape using the F word and Christmas in the same sentence, has covid too! Yet we see no proof of positive results nor any doctors that attended to her

- And now we find out they secretly got the vaccine in January?. Why?

Call BULLSHIT. I don't care if he was gasping on the way up the stairs and looked bad. He knows fully about TV makeup and how to act.

[Danascot]

32. Clean-up in aisle CDC

[malaise]

34. Great coverage on Rachel now

Tearing Redfield a new one

[spanone]

35. More Criminality

[malaise]

36. Redfield too

As Rachel said he should have resigned rather than put that shit on CDC's website.

I hope there are consequences for these criminals