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"Interviews with 11 current and former agency employees, including trainees at the E.I.S., as well as a review of text messages and other documents obtained by The New York Times, portray an agency under intense pressure from the country’s nytimes.com/2023/03/21/hea…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"Young researchers often see public health — and particularly the E.I.S. — as a sort of higher calling, far removed from politics and the marketplace.

...But the arrival of the pandemic laid to rest those illusions. The first big shock came in February nytimes.com/2023/03/21/hea…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"All through February, agency scientists had reviewed the increasingly compelling evidence, and data from the C.D.C.’s own investigation of residents at nursing homes in Seattle in early March confirmed it.

Privately, many E.I.S. officers were already nytimes.com/2023/03/21/hea…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"Many of [the CDC's reports] — including ones on when the virus arrived in the United States, guidance for meatpacking plants and religious services and on the risks to children — were suppressed or altered beyond recognition by the Trump administration, nytimes.com/2023/03/21/hea…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

In August 2020, Michael R. Caputo, then the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, described C.D.C. scientists as lazy and as traitors engaging in sedition.

“This is just downright hurtful,” one officer wrote nytimes.com/2023/03/21/hea…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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