CDC tells employees not to talk to the press: report

BY PETER SULLIVAN at the Hill

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/350224-cdc-tells-employees-not-to-talk-to-the-press-report

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning employees not to talk to reporters unless they are cleared by the communications office, according to an internal email obtained by Axios.

"Effective immediately and until further notice, any and all correspondence with any member of the news media, regardless of the nature of the inquiry, must be cleared through CDC's Atlanta Communications Office," public affairs officer Jeffrey Lancashire wrote. "This correspondence includes everything from formal interview requests to the most basic of data requests."

Employees were instructed not to talk to reporters “even for a simple data-related question," Axios reports.

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In a statement, the agency said it uses "multiple channels to communicate its science information to the public" and that they updated a procedure within an existing policy.

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