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North Dakota reported more than 460 new cases, its one-day record, and West Virginia, which had one of the lowest case rates in line with the population in the United States, also reached a record, with more than 340 cases.
Policymakers at the Department of Health and Human Services have called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review, delayed, and even spoiled coronavirus reports they consider unflattering to President Trump.
Current and former high-level fitness officials with direct knowledge of phone calls, emails, and other inter-agency communications on Saturday showed a report released Friday night in Politico that CDC’s weekly public reports of morbidity and mortality were addressed to high-level fitness officials and the Office of Human Services Communications.
The reports, which a former senior fitness official has described as the “holy of holies” in the firm’s literature, are written largely for scientists and public fitness experts, to update them on trends in infectious diseases, not only the coronavirus. Also other epidemics throughout the country. They are so monitored through the firm’s staff that they are only seen by the policy appointees just before they are posted.
The reports were s scrutiny this summer by Michael Caputo, a Republican political agent and former Trump crusader whom the White House installed as the department’s most sensible spokesman in April, when he had no physical training.
Caputo himself said Saturday that the Politico report is largely accurate, but denied that there would have been transparent pressure. He said the main user concerned with reporting reports, Paul Alexander, an assistant professor of fitness studies at McMaster University in Canada, whom he hired to advise on pandemic science, has just submitted direct responses to CDC projects. Weekly reports of morbidity and mortality.
“He researches these MMWRs and publicizes his position, and his position is not popular with career scientists,” Mr. Caputo said of Mr. Alexander. “This is called science. Disagreement is a science. No one has been ordered to make Some adjustments were accepted, the maximums were rejected. I sense that’s how science is played.
In emails received through Politico and shown to The Times through a fitness officer with direct knowledge, Alexander accused C. D. C. scientists looking to “hurt the president,” calling weekly reports “the centerpiece of the administration. “Alexander asked DR. Robert R. Redfield, director of the CDC, to publish reports that had already been published, which, he said, exaggerated the dangers of the virus to young people and undermined the administration’s efforts to inspire the reopening of schools.
Washington’s interference involved Dr. Redfield, according to a former senior fitness officer, who refused when Caputo called him to harass him by the reports.
Inside the C. D. C. , workers on Saturday expressed their outrage and demoralization over interference reports.
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