CDC was pressured by Trump to alter scientific guidance, prevented from communicating w/ the public

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Link to tweet

[mobeau69]

1. Can we just lock his ass up, please?

[70sEraVet]

2. Great graphic!

[Blue Owl]

3. Fatfuck von Golfcart thinks he's above science

It’s just a matter of time before he finds out who’s really the boss!

[Claustrum]

4. Well, COVID should have taken him out when it had the chance.

That would have been real justice. But because of tax payer funded best healthcare treatment available for a president, he survived.

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5. Here are the details from CNN:

(CNN)The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released to CNN on Friday new evidence showing how US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials were pressured by Trump administration officials to alter scientific guidance and prevented from communicating directly with the public.

In new excerpts of transcribed interviews, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the former director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said she was made aware that then-President Donald Trump was angered by a February 25, 2020, briefing during which she warned the public about the dangers of the coronavirus. Messonnier says in the transcript she had calls with former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield and former US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar after the briefing, and that she was "upset" after her conversation with Azar.

In the transcripts, other CDC officials described how requests to hold briefings about mask guidance and pediatric Covid-19 cases and deaths were denied. When asked about a CNN report that CDC officials felt "muzzled," Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC's former principal deputy director, said, "That is the feeling that we had, many of us had."

CDC officials also appeared to take issue with invoking a public health authority to expel migrants.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/politics/house-committee-cdc-covid-trump-administration-response/index.html