11/12/2021

CDC/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “The latest documents from a House committee investigating the former administration’s response to the [coronavirus] pandemic shed additional light on the efforts of some of former President Trump’s political appointees to blunt or even block the messages of career officials because they did not align with Trump’s rosy projections…

Trump officials tried to stop the CDC from publishing what the White House felt was negative information about the pandemic. Officials specifically tried to interfere with the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) to make them better align with the White House’s more optimistic messaging about the state of the virus.”

-Nathaniel Weixel, “Documents reveal new details of Trump political interference in COVID-19 response,” thehill.com, November 12, 2021