Emails Detail Effort to Silence C.D.C. and Question Its Science
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Source: New York Times
By Noah Weiland
WASHINGTON On June 30, as the coronavirus was cresting toward its summer peak, Dr. Paul Alexander, a new science adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services, composed a scathing two-page critique of an interview given by a revered scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, a 32-year veteran of the C.D.C. and its principal deputy director, had appealed to Americans to wear masks and warned, We have way too much virus across the country. But Dr. Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods, appeared sure he understood the coronavirus better.
Her aim is to embarrass the president, he wrote, commenting on Dr. Schuchats appeal for face masks in an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association.
She is duplicitous, he also wrote in an email to his boss, Michael R. Caputo, the Health and Human Services Departments top spokesman who went on medical leave this week. He asked Mr. Caputo to remind Dr. Schuchat that during the H1N1 swine flu outbreak in 2009, thousands of Americans had died under her work.
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(22,668 posts)But we know this was intentional, not unintentional, so McConnell will stand silent while our country burns to the ground.
Traitors!
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(14,118 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,880 posts)Oh FFS the corpulent creep doesn't need any assistance embarassing himself. The CDC is supposed to serve the American people not his portliness.
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