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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 08:55 AM Mar 2021

Trump admin more or less forged CDC documents.

(CNN)A review of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Covid-19 guidance has found that some of the agency's guidance during the Trump administration was not grounded in science or free from undue influence, according to a statement from a CDC spokesperson.

The review found that some guidance "used less direct language than available evidence supported," "needed to be updated to reflect the latest scientific evidence" and "presented the underlying science base for guidance inconsistently," according to the spokesperson.
Additionally, the review identified three documents that were not primarily authored by the CDC and yet were presented as CDC documents, according to the spokesperson. The agency has removed two of the documents from its website, and updated and replaced the third.


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underpants

(182,279 posts)
1. Political appointees
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:01 AM
Mar 2021

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Or with the Trump operation who knows. The could have just created them.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
4. They keep skirting around the edges of this...
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:16 AM
Mar 2021

Reports at the time were that Ivanka was personally one of the 'undue influencers'.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
9. I remember reading, at some point...
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 10:39 AM
Mar 2021

That Ivanker an KellyAnne were writing CDC guidelines. I don’t know if it’s true or not.

Could they get popped for altering/faking government guidelines?

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. WOW . .. .
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:03 AM
Mar 2021

People who were paying attention obviously figured that out when shithole's administration were playing with people lives.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
3. Keep in mind this was done by a group of people...
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:13 AM
Mar 2021

Who ALL eventually contracted the virus and the only way some of them made it through was availing themselves of medical services and treatments which were very expensive (beyond those of most means) and used by exception.

Meanwhile, the general (tax paying) public was YOYO.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
5. Why didn't someone in the CDC anonymously speak up? Why would any admin be able to put out ...
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:18 AM
Mar 2021

... information that wasn't approved by the experts.

Damn

We have the brother of a traitor stalls US forces protecting America against an ongoing attack and now this crap.

Someone could've anonymously said something

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
6. At least two CDC officials vociferously resigned in protest...
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:29 AM
Mar 2021

(early former guy appointees, I might add)

There were a smattering of stories about it on page D-9.

Most of the liberal media was transfixed on Mango Mussolini farting in front of helicopter, whether there was a body double of the Turd Lady, or waiting for him to show up at a rally.

I guess they didn't want a panic.

gibraltar72

(7,486 posts)
7. I said this months ago. We are basing counts on Trumps CDC and we know they are lying.
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:31 AM
Mar 2021

They routinely undercounted deaths and cases. I found it odd that no one used more reliable and honest numbers of cases and deaths.

young_at_heart

(3,758 posts)
14. Why don't Trumpers find this unacceptable?
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 11:11 AM
Mar 2021

I can't think of any other president corrupting the CDC and doing such a horrible thing ought to make voters question their loyalty to such a creature!

Kid Berwyn

(14,651 posts)
13. "Corruption in public office is treason." -- Adlai Stevenson, Jr.
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 11:03 AM
Mar 2021

Many, if not most, of 530,000 Americans who have lost their lives are victims of Donald J Trump’s willful neglect.

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