Analysis: How politics infected Trump’s coronavirus response, in one key case
, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, to align with a the White House’s more optimistic view of the pandemic.when CDC expert Nancy Messonnier stated in a February 2020 briefing that the virus’s spread in the United States was inevitable. Messonnier detailed in her testimony how this led to a reprimand from Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, and No. 2 CDC official Anne Schuchat said the White House scrambled to schedule a briefing to smooth things over.
The recommendation, though, did line up with the views of one very prominent official: Trump. For much of the summer, Trump had been “After this guidance was posted, of course we were tracking every day the number of tests performed,” Birx said. “We saw a dramatic decline of the number of tests performed during the end of August and the beginning of September. … This document resulted in less testing and less — less aggressive testing of those without symptoms that I believed were the primary reason for the early community spread.
But again, Birx reinforced that this very basic of steps, nine months into the pandemic, came over the continued “objections from senior White House personnel.”
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