1/ Undermining the CDC Puts Lives at Risk --The Trump administration has found a new way to sideline the country’s leading public health agency-- Per bloom.bg/2X4PxIb By Michael R-- Bloomberg via @bopinion ...
@bopinion 2/ ...--With Covid-19 surging out of control and health-care workers in many states struggling to keep up with the patient load--- Per bloom.bg/2X4PxIb --...
@bopinion 3/ ... the president has authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to demand that hospitals change the way they report data to the federal government---- Per bloom.bg/2X4PxIb --...
@bopinion 4/ ... [the president has authorized] Stop sending statistics on patient numbers-- bed availability-- ventilators and other key data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention---- Per bloom.bg/2X4PxIb --...
@bopinion 5/ ... the agency said-- and instead direct the information to HHS headquarters in Washington-- Oh-- and make this change within two days---- Per bloom.bg/2X4PxIb --...
@bopinion 6/ ... --Don’t mistake this new policy for a bureaucratic adjustment of no great significance---- Per bloom.bg/2X4PxIb -- or just one more effort by the Trump administration to annoy its critics--...
@bopinion 7/ ... It’s much worse than that-- This change is so reckless —-- Per bloom.bg/2X4PxIb -- make no mistake: people will die as a result — it borders on criminality.
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