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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump officials celebrated efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus, emails show
Political appointees also tried to blunt scientific findings they deemed unfavorable to Trump, according to new documents from House probeThe documents provide further insight into how senior Trump officials approached last years explosion of coronavirus cases in the United States. Even as career government scientists worked to combat the virus, a cadre of Trump appointees was attempting to blunt the scientists messages, edit their findings and equip the president with an alternate set of talking points.
Then-science adviser Paul Alexander wrote to then-HHS public affairs chief Michael Caputo on Sept. 9, 2020, touting two examples of where he said officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had bowed to his pressure and changed language in their reports, according to an email obtained by the Houses select subcommittee on the coronavirus outbreak.
Pointing to one change in which CDC leaders allegedly changed the opening sentence of a report about the spread of the virus among younger people after Alexander pressured them Alexander wrote to Caputo, calling it a small victory but a victory nonetheless and yippee!!!
***PayWall***https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/09/cdc-covid-political-interference/
"They" killed people to keep Trump from looking bad. People need to be in prison for that shit.
spanone
(135,827 posts)Botany
(70,501 posts)When Trump and Kushner were told of the coming pandemic in the fall of 2019
they invested in hydroxychlororquine and their own C-19 test kit neither which
worked and shipped 18 tons of PPE to China in Feb. 2020 which killed or sickened
thousands of people on the east coast because they didn't have the needed equipment
to protect themselves. This included Drs., nurses, emts, 1st responders, and others.
Fuckers need to be in prison.
spanone
(135,827 posts)Botany
(70,501 posts)How many people world wide have gotten sick and or died from C-19?
The virus could have or should have been stopped in China if Trump hadn't gotten rid of
the global pandemic task force, the epidemiologist from the C.D.C who was on the ground
Wuhan, and pulled us out of an international virus looking for agency call PREDICT.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)It is truly criminal what they did and didn't do.
malaise
(268,949 posts)Mass murder, criminal negligence - lock them up!