CDC was aware of--but covered up--positive test results demonstrating local transmission of coronavirus in US.
How Cover-Up by CDC Set Back US Coronavirus Response
nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/…
How Cover-Up by CDC Set Back US Coronavirus Response
nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/…
"Dr. Helen Y. Chu, an infectious disease expert in Seattle,..had..way to monitor the region. For months, as part of..research project in..flu, she and..team of researchers had been collecting nasal swabs from residents experiencing symptoms throughout the Puget Sound region."
"To repurpose the tests for monitoring..coronavirus, they would need the support of..federal officials. But nearly everywhere Dr. Chu turned, officials repeatedly rejected..idea, interviews and emails show, even as weeks crawled by and outbreaks emerged..outside..China"
"By Feb. 25, Dr. Chu and her colleagues could not bear to wait any longer. They began performing coronavirus tests, without government approval."
"What came back confirmed their worst fear. They quickly had a positive test from a local teenager with no recent travel history."
"What came back confirmed their worst fear. They quickly had a positive test from a local teenager with no recent travel history."
"Federal and state officials said..could not be repurposed because it did not have explicit permission"
"On Monday night, state regulators told them to stop testing altogether."
"On Monday night, state regulators told them to stop testing altogether."
"Dr. Scott F. Dowell, a former high-ranking CDC official..asked for help from..CDC"
"Dr. Lindquist,..state epidemiologist in Washington, wrote..to CDC..requesting..study be used to test for..coronavirus"
"Dr. Lindquist,..state epidemiologist in Washington, wrote..to CDC..requesting..study be used to test for..coronavirus"
"CDC officials repeatedly said it would not be possible."
"'What they said..on phone call..very clearly was cease and desist...Stop testing'"
"'What they said..on phone call..very clearly was cease and desist...Stop testing'"
"On...phone call the day after..officials relented, but only partially..They would allow..laboratories to test cases and report..results only in future samples..They were not to test..thousands of samples that had already been collected."
"on Monday night, state regulators, enforcing Medicare rules, stepped in and again told them to stop"
"local officials across the country were left to work blindfolded as the crisis grew undetected and exponentially"
Federal government covered up positive test result obtained on Feb 25 so that President could falsely calim successful containment of outbreak in "Mission Accomplished" press conference on Feb 26.
