A Democratic-led House select committee says it has uncovered evidence of political interference by the Trump administration into the federal government's coronavirus response last year
A new document released Tuesday details the pressure that career officials faced from a Trump administration political appointee to change portions of the CDC's crucial Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , which laid out Covid deaths, hospitalizations and infections during the pandemic.The new document also corroborates testimony given last year from a career CDC official who said she was ordered to destroy evidence of the request, according to the committee.
Charlotte Kent, the editor in chief of the MMWR series, had told subcommittee staff that she was ordered to delete the email -- an instruction she understood came from Redfield.Redfield said in a statement at the time that he had instructed the CDC to ignore Alexander's comments.Former CDC political appointees Kyle McGowan, Amanda Campbell and Nina Witkofsky, a senior adviser and former CDC acting-chief of staff, were among the recipients on the August 9 email.
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