BREAKING: Michael Caputo & other Trump appointees interfered with @CDCgov’s weekly reports on #COVID19—and even tried to halt the reports—in an attempt to intimidate scientists to favor Trump’s dangerous views on #coronavirus.

#TrumpVirus #TrumpKnew https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809

Emails from Caputo aides to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other senior CDC officials claimed that CDC’s reports would “undermine” @realDonaldTrump’s dangerously FALSE messages about #coronavirus.

SPINNING DATA RISKS LIVES.

#TrumpLiesPeopleDie #COVID19 #TrumpKnew

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) are authored by career scientists and serve to inform doctors, researchers and the public about how #COVID19 is spreading and who is at risk. Historically, these reports have have had NO political interference—they shouldn’t!

Caputo's team tried to BLOCK some reports, including on #hydroxychloroquine. The report—held for a month after Caputo’s team raised questions about authors’ political leanings—was published last week: "the potential benefits of these drugs do not outweigh their risks."

In one clash, an aide to Caputo berated CDC scientists for attempting to use the reports to "hurt the President" in an 8/8 email to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other officials that was widely circulated inside CDC.

SCIENTISTS SHOULD NOT BE POLITICALLY INFLUENCED ON DATA.

Caputo lackey Paul Alexander called on Redfield to modify 2 already published reports that Alexander claimed “wrongly inflate the risks of #coronavirus to kids & undermined Trump's push to reopen schools.

THEY TRIED TO HIDE EVIDENCE OF OUR KIDS BEING AT-RISK.

Alexander: “CDC...appears to be writing hit pieces on the administration. CDC tried to report as if once kids get together, there will be spread & this will impact school re-opening...Very misleading by CDC and shame on them. Their aim is clear."

CDC’s “aim” is to SAVE LIVES.

CDC officials have fought efforts to retroactively change reports but have increasingly allowed Caputo & team to review them before publication. Caputo also helped install CDC’s interim chief of staff, so Caputo would have more visibility into CDC.

THEY ARE SPINNING THE DATA

We physicians and scientists rely on CDC’s quality scientific reports, most especially during a historic #pandemic that has KILLED nearly 200,000 Americans.

Trump is DESPERATE to #coverup his TOTAL FAILURE of containing #coronavirus that he is cooking the books.

VOTE HIM OUT!