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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBehind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings
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Tweet text:Adam Parkhomenko
@AdamParkhomenko
My god. This is monstrous.
Mark Mazzetti
@MarkMazzettiNYT
NEW: Top White House officials spent weeks pressuring the C.D.C. over the summer to downplay the risk of sending children back to school. W/ @noahweiland @SharonLNYT https://nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/politics/white-house-cdc-coronavirus-schools.html?referringSource=articleShare
5:35 PM · Sep 28, 2020
@AdamParkhomenko
My god. This is monstrous.
Mark Mazzetti
@MarkMazzettiNYT
NEW: Top White House officials spent weeks pressuring the C.D.C. over the summer to downplay the risk of sending children back to school. W/ @noahweiland @SharonLNYT https://nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/politics/white-house-cdc-coronavirus-schools.html?referringSource=articleShare
5:35 PM · Sep 28, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/politics/white-house-cdc-coronavirus-schools.html
WASHINGTON Top White House officials pressured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this summer to downplay the risk of sending children back to school, a strikingly political intervention in one of the most sensitive public health debates of the pandemic, according to documents and interviews with current and former government officials.
As part of their behind-the-scenes effort, White House officials also tried to circumvent the C.D.C. in a search for alternate data showing that the pandemic was weakening and posed little danger to children.
The documents and interviews show how the White House spent weeks trying to press public health professionals to fall in line with President Trumps election-year agenda of pushing to reopen schools and the economy as quickly as possible. The president and his team have remained defiant in their demand for schools to get back to normal, even as coronavirus cases have once again ticked up, in some cases linked to school and college reopenings.
The effort included Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White Houses coronavirus response coordinator, and officials working for Vice President Mike Pence, who led the task force. It left officials at the C.D.C., long considered the worlds premier public health agency, alarmed at the degree of pressure from the White House.
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Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
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spanone
(135,827 posts)1. Goddamn Monsters.
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)2. K&R. The hits just keep coming. n/t
stillcool
(32,626 posts)3. That republican ego is a killer
can't imagine what it's like to work with such pricks.
BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)5. CDC is the Center for Disease Cover-Up