“But Dr. Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods, appeared sure he understood the coronavirus better [than Dep Director Anne Schuchat].” Completely absurd. Schuchat is one of most experienced pub health officials in US nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/…
How did HHS leadership and White House permit this badgering and undermining of CDC for 5 months?
Manipulation of the science is what you do when you fear the true data and the real evidence will make you look bad, it’s what happens in autocracies.
One reason American science has been enduring source of great national power and health is because it has been free to find the truth of the matter, to publish the data transparently, to get to bottom of things
It’s time for politics to stop leaning on US science agencies, to again allow our most credible scientists to speak freely about what the science is telling us, to realize that actually understanding the science is the fastest path to controlling COVID
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