"There has been a tremendous amount of interference..." (COVID19)

I apologize if this is a duplicate — I didn’t see it, but thought Redlener’s comment was striking:

On NPR this morning, Rachel Martin asked Dr. Irwin Redlener of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, “The CDC has only released detailed information about one coronavirus patient. Which means doctors treating that patient aren’t benefitting from that clinical information. Is that unusual?”

Redlener responded: “It’s not only unusual, it’s very dangerous. I’m trying to understand – and I think all of us in the medical profession – why that information is being withheld. I’m afraid there’s been a tremendous amount of interference in what would normally happen in a public health crisis. Interference by the administration, by President Trump and Vice President Pence. And by the way, now our public health officials and experts are under a keep-silent order because all messages, all conversations, with the media have to now be cleared through the vice presidential office, another very unusual situation and given the fact that the administration has been let’s say less than forthcoming on so many levels with information generally and on about information about this coronavirus, this is really a very dangerous situation where we can’t let the experts guide what’s happening…”

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/03/811504588/cdc-criticized-for-its-slow-release-of-coronavirus-testing-kits