NEW: Have you been wondering if the CDC has, in recent weeks, seemed to reclaim some measure of its independence?

You weren't wrong.

1/x https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/health/coronavirus-cdc-trump.html

The CDC has been sidelined and silenced almost since the beginning of the pandemic. But something changed in the fall: The big fight about the administration's meddling in the prestigious MMWR reports, the election, and the dangerously rising case numbers 2/x

“We couldn’t allow ourselves to be politicized at this moment in time,” one senior CDC scientist told me. “We weren’t going to spend time licking wounds and worrying about the past." 3/x

You may have noticed several recent docs: the masks brief, the strict rules for cruise lines, the acknowledgment of airborne transmission indoors and risks to kids... it's not coincidence that these things all came out in October. 4/x

For the full behind-the-scenes look at what's been happening inside the agency, please read the story

feat. @scottjbecker @celinegounder @CarlosdelRio7 @DrTomFrieden @DrRichBesser and some brave men and women I cannot name https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/health/coronavirus-cdc-trump.html