Trump appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services have worked to alter CDC COVID-19 reports so they would be more politically beneficial to the president, according to Politico. HHS communications aides, led by Trump-appointed spokesman Michael Caputo — a former Trump campaign official and Roger Stone associate with no medical or scientific background — reportedly demanded the right to review and change weekly scientific reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at times complaining that the reports would undermine President Trump’s rosy public pronouncements about the coronavirus.
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