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Politically appointed members of the Department of Health and Human Services' communications teams were allowed to review, change and delay reports authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a bombshell report published by Politico late Friday.

The Politico report said that the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, a public report compiled by scientists that's served as the key communication avenue between the CDC and health care providers, researchers, journalists and the public since the 1980s, has been tinkered with when CDC findings didn't align with President Donald Trump's public statements about c****av***s.

ABC News has not independently confirmed the Politico report.


"[The assistant secretary for public affairs] clears virtually all public-facing documents for all of its divisions, including CDC," Michael Caputo, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed to ABC News.

"Our intention is to make sure that evidence, science-based data drives policy through this p******c -- not ulterior deep state motives in the bowels of CDC," Caputo, a former Trump campaign official with no scientific or medical background, said in a statement.

According to Politico, in one instance, Caputo and his team pushed to retroactively adjust CDC reports that they said inflated the risk of C****-**. The critique, in the communication team's opinion, was that the CDC reports did not explicitly point out that Americans with C****-** could have become infected because of their own behavior, according to the Politico story.

In another instance, Caputo's team tried to slow down a CDC report on hydroxychloroquine, the controversial malaria drug that Trump frequently referenced as a potential C****-** treatment during press briefings. A report about hydroxychloroquine that said "the potential benefits of these drugs do not outweigh their risks" was withheld for roughly a month while the team investigated the CDC author's political leanings, according to Politico.

Several CDC staff members told ABC News they were infuriated to learn Caputo's team made attempts to revise the weekly reports in ways inconsistent with science, something they would have previously thought not possible.

Democratic nominee Joe Biden weighed in on the Politico report via his campaign manager.

"When Donald Trump told Bob Woodward that he wanted to downplay the v***s, this is the exact kind of repugnant betrayal that he meant," Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager, said in a statement.

"This report is further proof that the Trump Administration has been systematically putting political optics ahead of the safety of the American people," she added. "Trump's failure has left us with 6 million infected, millions more unemployed, and the worst outbreak in the developed world. We deserve so much better."

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Your post implies that the CDC and the scientists employed by the CDC are apolitical, and whose actions and decisions do not have political overtones. That is an obvious farce.

The two examples you cite in the Politico article, 1) the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, and 2) report about hydroxychloroquine that said "the potential benefits of these drugs do not outweigh their risks" both have been shown to be highly politicized and biased.

1) The CDC and the main stream media attempt to gin up huge numbers of deaths that they call "Death by C****-**". The US Death toll is reported by the CDC as somewhere around 175,000 people. But they do not point out the difference between death by CV-19, or death with CV-19.

A great deal has been written about the loosely-goosey criteria ascribing CV-19 as the cause of death on death certificates. All a doctor or coroner needs is the suspicion that CV-19 was present to list CV-19 as a cause of death. Motorcycle accidents, suicides by a gunshot to the head, and heart attacks have all been labeled as CV-19 deaths, which inflate the numbers and instill fear in the minds of the public.

A new CDC report shows 94% of C****-** deaths in US had contributing conditions - https://fox8.com/tag/cdc/
According to the report, only 6% of deaths have C****-** as the only cause mentioned, revealing that 94% of patients who died from c****av***s also had other “health conditions and contributing causes.”

2) The CDC's position on the hydroxychloroquine issue is easy to be proven as erroneous as pointed out
in the article entitled "Hydroxychloroquine And F**e News" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hydroxychloroquine-and-f**e-news

and the attached article and video entitled: HCQ- Gates Funded Hydroxychloroquine Studies are Designed to K**l People -https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v2/streams/free/Deadly-Doses/2e9ad4c014850c5c3216289d97f3a658217332ea

https://oye.news/news/world-news/gates-funded-hydroxychloroquine-studies-are-designed-to-k**l-people/

and https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/07/08/the-lancet-retraction-hydroxychloroquine-clinical-trial.aspx

In short, HCQ or Hydroxychloroquine, along with zinc and azithromycin has been shown to be the most effective treatment for CV-19, if taken early in the treatment of CV-19.

So, tell me again why we should believe those noble, and apolitical scientists at the CDC, who would NEVER, EVER, use their position for partisan purposes.