"CDC REVIEW IDENTIFIES PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDANCE AUTHORED UNDER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT DOWNPLAYED PANDEMIC SEVERITY The analysis was done to restore public trust and ‘ensure that all of CDC’s existing covid-19 guidance is evidence-based and free of politics,’ says memo."
It takes time to mend the consequence of a concerted effort to discredit and push aside the expertise at the CDC. To link some
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2017-2020: Withdrew CDC staff from China
Between 2017 and 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of CDC staff in China — the presumed epicenter of the outbreak — from 47 to just 14, Reuters reported on March 25.
"We had a large operation of experts in China who were brought back during this administration, some of them months before the outbreak," a person who witnessed the withdrawal of U.S. personnel said. "You have to consider the possibility that our drawdown made this catastrophe more likely or more difficult to respond to."
2018: Ignored warnings from CDC
On May 7, 2018, the CDC held a daylong conference at Emory University to hear from experts on lessons learned 100 years after the 1918 flu pandemic, Yahoo News reported on Thursday.
"Are we ready to respond to a pandemic?" Dr. Luciana Borio, who at the time was head of the global health section of the National Security Council, asked at the conference. "I fear the answer is no.
H.H.S. backs Trump reelection, blocks C.D.C. science expertise - C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections
"hookrider, C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing "cdc-quietly-changes-testing-guidelines: IMO, Trump doesn't like the numbers so high from testing. So change the guidelines so he can say the numbers went down. Then he can say he is doing a great job!!! Like all things Trump it's lies & bull shit!!!" P - Trump history suggests you likely are right. It sounds almost criminally negligent to me. Potentially, at least."
A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn’t need to get tested for the virus came from H.H.S. officials and skipped the C.D.C.’s scientific review process.
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