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The June 28 email to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was ominous: A senior adviser to a top Health and Human Services Department official accused the CDC of undermining the President by putting out a report about the potential risks of the coronavirus to pregnant women.
The adviser, Paul Alexander, criticized the agencys methods and said its warning to pregnant women reads in a way to frighten women .?.?. as if the President and his administration cant fix this and it is getting worse.
As the country enters a frightening phase of the pandemic with new daily cases surpassing 62,000 on Wednesday, the CDC, the nations top public health agency, is coming under intense pressure from President Trump and his allies, who are downplaying the dangers in a bid to revive the economy ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election. In a White House guided by the presidents instincts, rather than by evidence-based policy, the CDC finds itself forced constantly to backtrack or sidelined from pivotal decisions.
The latest clash between the White House and its top public health advisers erupted Wednesday, when the president slammed the agencys recommendation that schools planning to reopen should keep students desks six feet apart, among other steps to reduce infection risks. In a tweet, Trump who has demanded schools at all levels hold in-person classes this fall called the advice very tough & expensive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/trump-sidelines-public-health-advisers-in-growing-rift-over-coronavirus-response/2020/07/09/ad803218-c12a-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Time to tell trump to fuck off. He'll be out in 6 months anyway.
Greywing
(1,124 posts)around this chicken-assed man. What the hell are they afraid of? Trump is a nothing and always has been
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,071 posts)During a May lunch with Senate Republicans, Trump told the group the CDC blew it on the coronavirus test and that hed installed a team of geniuses led by his son-in-law Jared Kushner to handle much of the response, according to two people familiar with the lunch who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
There is a view the CDC is staffed with deep state Democrats that are trying to tweak the administration, said one adviser who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal private conversations.
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The agency has been largely invisible. After more than three months of silence, it resumed briefings for the public last month. There have been two.
By comparison, when the H1N1 swine flu pandemic hit the United States in the spring of 2009, the CDC held briefings almost every day for six consecutive weeks.
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Trump is a fucking idiot. That wouldn't be a problem if he didn't have so much power.