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Health Official Reportedly Pressured CDC To Alter COVID-19 Info To Back President

EditorHuffington PostSeptember 12, 2020

A politically appointed Health and Human Services official with no medical background has been orchestrating an operation to pressure scientists and other officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to use sunnier language in their COVID-19 reports to reflect well on President Donald Trump, Politico reported Friday.

Some emails from the Health Department’s communications team viewed by Politico to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other senior officials flatly complained that the agency’s reports would undermine Trump’s optimistic messages about COVID-19. One email said that the “CDC … appears to be writing hit pieces on the administration,” Politico reported.

The pressure operation is being run by Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign official …continued .
[Source: Huffington Post]

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