“...since Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign official with no medical or scientific background, was installed in April as the new HHS spokesperson, there have been substantial efforts to align the [CDC’s COVID reports] with Trump's statements.” politico.com/news/2020/09/1…
“The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports are authored by career scientists and serve as the main vehicle for the agency to inform doctors, researchers and the general public about how Covid-19 is spreading and who is at risk.”
“Caputo & his team have attempted to add caveats to the CDC's findings, including an effort to retroactively change agency reports that they said wrongly inflated the risks of Covid-19.”
“Caputo's team delayed for a month the release of a report that addressed how doctors were prescribing hydroxychloroquine. Finally published last week, the report said that ‘the potential benefits of these drugs do not outweigh their risks.’”
“Caputo also said that HHS was appropriately reviewing the CDC's reports. ‘Our intention is to make sure that evidence, science-based data drives policy through this pandemic—not ulterior deep state motives in the bowels of CDC,’ he said.”
These moves are totally in line with Trump’s recently exposed comments to Bob Woodward to “downplay” the dangers of COVID-19.
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