Thread about reported political interference with CDC guidelines.
1. The August 24 change in testing recommendations
2. July 23-24: CDC updates school reopening guidance, after the President and administration officials criticize their recommendations and announce that the previous guidance will be revised
3. May 28: CDC removes guidelines about increased risk from singing (and after this, as was already evident at the time, there were outbreaks after choir activities)
4. May 1: detailed CDC document about safe reopening was shelved
5. August 23: FDA authorization for convalescent plasma is perhaps the most overt example of administration pressure forcing changes in an official scientific stance
6. Direct evidence of political interference with CDC documents, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, MMWR. “Nothing to go out unless I read and agree with the findings… and I tweak it to ensure it is fair and balanced and ‘complete.’”
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