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12 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Trump appointees interfered with CDC’s weekly reports on Covid-19 — and even tried to halt the reports altogether. politico.com/news/2020/09/1…
HHS spokesperson Caputo and his aides have targeted the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports — a pillar of U.S. medical research — arguing that scientists are intentionally trying to undermine Trump’s message. politico.com/news/2020/09/1…
In one email to CDC officials obtained by POLITICO, a Caputo aide blistered scientists and called for already-published reports to be retroactively altered.
Former senior Obama HHS official sends me this about their approach to CDC reports. (Shared with permission.)

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1. Grateful to those who spoke with me for this story and the many readers who engaged with it.
 
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