{"id":3486,"date":"2020-09-22T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:43:03","slug":"trumps-attempts-to-corrupt-the-cdc-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3486","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s attempts to corrupt the CDC, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“A vocal Trump ally and spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Michael Caputo, and a scientific adviser he hired, Paul Alexander, are pushing the CDC to alter or halt reports that are unflattering to the president and his administration\u2019s response to Covid-19.”
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“The CDC\u2019s response to the pandemic hasn\u2019t been faultless. Under Redfield, the agency took weeks to fix botched Covid-19 tests it sent out to labs across the country. The slowdown in testing, also caused by the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s initial resistance to approving more testing from private and other independent labs, led to what\u2019s now considered a \u201clost month\u201d<\/a> in February as the US should have ramped up its testing capacity to prepare for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Trump administration\u2019s concerns about the agency don\u2019t seem to be so much about its efficacy but that the facts on Covid-19 \u2014 including those the CDC reports on \u2014 make the president look bad.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump\u00a0even admitted to this<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward: \u201cI wanted to always play [the coronavirus] down,\u201d Trump said on March 19. \u201cI still like playing it down, because I don\u2019t want to create a panic.\u201d”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/21436459\/cdc-trump-mmrw-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A vocal Trump ally and spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Michael Caputo, and a scientific adviser he hired, Paul Alexander, are pushing the CDC to alter or halt reports that are unflattering to the president and his administration\u2019s response to Covid-19.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The CDC\u2019s response to the pandemic hasn\u2019t been faultless. Under Redfield, the agency took weeks to fix botched Covid-19 tests it sent out to labs across the country. The slowdown in testing, also caused by the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s initial resistance to approving more testing from private and other independent labs, led to what\u2019s now considered a \u201clost month\u201d in February as the US should have ramped up its testing capacity to prepare for the coronavirus.
\nBut the Trump administration\u2019s concerns about the agency don\u2019t seem to be so much about its efficacy but that the facts on Covid-19 \u2014 including those the CDC reports on \u2014 make the president look bad.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Trump even admitted to this in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward: \u201cI wanted to always play [the coronavirus] down,\u201d Trump said on March 19. \u201cI still like playing it down, because I don\u2019t want to create a panic.\u201d” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,951,483,221],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-corruption","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}