White House officials “substantially edited” at least one of the newly issued CDC documents on school reopenings, officials familiar with the documents tell The Washington Post. https://t.co/LoRkcc3bM7
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) July 25, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci confirms @NewsHour there was political interference w/ CDC reports by an Administration official, now being investigated by House Dems. "There was a person at HHS who was trying to influence what was said. That person is not there. It's no longer a problem."
— Murrey Jacobson (@MurreyJacobson) December 21, 2020
Ivanka screened CDC guidelines, & then made changes—overruling scientists/scientific data. “Demoralizing to spend your entire career preparing for a pandemic, & then have to answer to Ivanka Trump.” Her overruling scientists has severely damaged the CDC.https://t.co/GXBLISzbJ5
— Arctic Friend (@FriendEden100) December 19, 2020
"Every time that the science clashed with the messaging, messaging won": Two Trump appointees at CDC break their silence to describe political interference by the White House and HHS as the pandemic grew. @noahweiland https://t.co/i9kLTFcY0u
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 16, 2020
New: CDC director Robert Redfield accused by House watchdog of trying to "conceal and destroy evidence" of political interference with coronavirus scientific guidance. @LennyMBernstein, @bylenasun: https://t.co/Xutwq2B1Dw
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) December 10, 2020
NEW:
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) December 10, 2020
👉CDC official told House Coronavirus Select Committee she was ordered to delete email suggesting political concerns behind effort to change data about coronavirus and children.https://t.co/tBnE8DmASb via @nbcnews
Morale at the CDC has turned "toxic," according to 4 current and 2 former staffers, with one saying the election could be a "tipping point" for a mass exodus if President Trump wins. https://t.co/VfUdzqhIKu
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 25, 2020
Perspective: The CDC has become enmeshed in politics. But it’s not unique to the Trump administration. https://t.co/Esps6fHBUE
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 23, 2020
The White House has installed political appointees at the CDC to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus, officials told AP. The administration seeks to paint a positive outlook, sometimes at odds with the scientific evidence. https://t.co/eyaigzOilo
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 16, 2020
More than 1,000 current and former officers of an elite disease-fighting program at the CDC have signed an letter expressing dismay at the nation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and calling for the federal agency to play a more central role."https://t.co/7YXTkMidT5
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) October 16, 2020
NEW: The Trump administration in June installed two political appointees to CDC headquarters who have no public health background.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 16, 2020
They have instead been tasked with keeping an eye its scientists and Dr. Robert Redfield, the agency director https://t.co/grWIlMCr3s
Absolutely stunning. A must read to the very end. https://t.co/G14Y5JbPWs
— Ali Zaslav (@alizaslav) October 16, 2020
The inside story of how Trump’s Covid coordinator Deborah Birx undermined CDC and created a hospital data “debacle” with perilous implications. My latest investigation for @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/ghSnHwVC1c
— Charles Piller (@cpiller) October 14, 2020
“Birx replaced a functional, if imperfect, CDC data system—well understood by hospitals and state health departments—with an error-ridden and unreliable filter on hospital needs that sometimes displays nonsensical data, such as negative numbers of beds.” https://t.co/zUK2gbwwQs
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 14, 2020
Battered by Trump, the CDC's director faces pressure to speak out https://t.co/v0PUOUbeUx pic.twitter.com/0kCwFmqeeN
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) October 12, 2020
A former CDC director has written a private letter to the current director, Dr. Robert Redfield, urging him to expose the Trump administration’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic — even if it means getting fired. https://t.co/me8PQ77C27
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 7, 2020
This private letter to the head of the CDC from one of his predecessors is just shattering.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 7, 2020
It says: "the biggest challenge in a century and we let the country down"
It adds that his role is "servant to the public," not "servant to a corrupt president"https://t.co/yIl8HsInEk pic.twitter.com/KMiBBacon7
Former CDC director to current @CDCDirector: "Apologize for what has happened and your role in acquiescing. Don’t shy away from the fact this has been an unacceptable toll on our country. It is a slaughter and not just a political dispute.”https://t.co/QQH2XrODbD
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 7, 2020
Just reported on MSNBC: the CDC has been prohibited from doing contact tracing for any of the COVID infections at the White House or Trump's contacts.
— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) October 5, 2020
The White House overruled the director of the CDC on a request to keep a ban on cruises in effect into 2021 https://t.co/Sqo61qgBFZ
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 29, 2020
New: CDC boss Robert Redfield was overruled when he pushed to extend a "no-sail order" on passenger cruises into next year, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the conversation today in the White House Situation Room. https://t.co/6juhcghI5G
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) September 29, 2020
NEW: Top White House officials spent weeks pressuring the C.D.C. over the summer to downplay the risk of sending children back to school. W/ @noahweiland @SharonLNYT https://t.co/1WFLNDRX94
— Mark Mazzetti (@MarkMazzettiNYT) September 29, 2020
"Everything he says is false," says CDC head Robert Redfield, in overheard phone call, of new Trump COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas https://t.co/SVU24JHUB2
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 28, 2020
The @CDCgov reversed a reversal of a stupid guidance — so it went reasonable-to-stupid-to-smart-back to stupid on whether #SARSCoV2 is airborne transmissible. It is. Clearly. But CDC now says no — less than 24 hrs after saying yes.
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 21, 2020
I smell @WhiteHouse meddling, again. Just 😷 https://t.co/q1sXyAbV2P
COVID being airborne is politically inconvenient. https://t.co/z1gfM16UGJ
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) September 21, 2020
CDC Didn’t Write Testing Guidance Published on Its Website, Officials Say
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) September 17, 2020
A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn’t need to get tested for the virus came from HHS officials and skipped the CDC’s scientific review process.https://t.co/1yQ6AJ23ST
Sad! 