A House oversight panel found former President Donald Trump and his administration routinely undermined efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic last year, prolonging a deadly public health disaster in the hopes of winning an election he eventually lost https://t.co/plRuuuBmsw

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 17, 2021

The January 6 Committee discovered evidence the Trump administration “limited the CDC’s ability to communicate effectively to the American public”

Rarely does truth trickle out at @FoxNews, but here’s former CDC Director Redfield confirming the story on with @marthamaccallum pic.twitter.com/QoxAZYyQey

— Bryan Dawson🇺🇸 (@BryanDawsonUSA) December 18, 2021

NEW: House committee investigating the U.S. response to Covid has just issued a subpoena to Dr. Steven Hatfill for documents from his time advising the Trump White House. pic.twitter.com/otYNNLDuhJ

— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) September 24, 2021

A former White House adviser detailed how officials prioritized Trump's election challenges rather than the pandemic, in emails reviewed by The Post. https://t.co/pjl11Gzq3c

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 24, 2021

The CDC is hewing more closely to scientific evidence, often contradicting the positions of the Trump administration. https://t.co/wlajHyowsi

— NYT Science (@NYTScience) November 15, 2020

SCOOP: The Trump administration has been pressuring @CDCgov to sign off on using border hotels to detain migrant children before deportation as a health measure. Career CDC officials are refusing to endorse. @bylenasun @nickmiroff https://t.co/2YdddQSFhn

— Carol Eisenberg (@Eisey) October 23, 2020

📍ATLAS SHRUGGED & PEOPLE DIED. Trump’s WH pandemic advisor Scott Atlas arm-twisted CDC to say no need to test asymptomatic people for #COVID19 *even if exposed to virus*—angering Drs. Birx & Redfield. Atlas now tied with Miller for worst Trump advisor. 🧵https://t.co/VBqKqjpDa9 pic.twitter.com/e9EJXYBrs8

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 17, 2020

Here’s the @ProPublica report we were just discussing: “Inside the Fall of the CDC” https://t.co/lTs5ItCAdd

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 15, 2020

NEW: The White House’s decision to block stringent new Covid-19 vaccine guidelines came after it told the FDA that the pharmaceutical industry had objected to the tougher standards. https://t.co/DwVvsih5Mi

— Adam Cancryn (@adamcancryn) October 5, 2020

Breaking News: The FDA released stricter coronavirus vaccine guidelines that the White House had previously blocked, making it highly unlikely that a vaccine could be authorized before Election Day.https://t.co/JwwVu7tkGH

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 6, 2020

Former CDC director to current @CDCDirector: "Apologize for what has happened and your role in acquiescing. Don’t shy away from the fact this has been an unacceptable toll on our country. It is a slaughter and not just a political dispute.”https://t.co/QQH2XrODbD

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 7, 2020

A former CDC director has written a private letter to the current director, Dr. Robert Redfield, urging him to expose the Trump administration’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic — even if it means getting fired. https://t.co/me8PQ77C27

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 7, 2020

NEWS: CDC Dir. Redfield is increasingly concerned about the expanding influence of Dr. Scott Atlas, telling a colleague in an overheard call that "everything he says is false" & suggesting Atlas is arming Pres. Trump with misleading pandemic information. https://t.co/F4dSrBmXaz

— Monica Alba (@albamonica) September 28, 2020

President Trump has lost patience with the head of the CDC after a series of mixed messages https://t.co/O8JdFdR5oH pic.twitter.com/pY1U6L3ohI

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 27, 2020

In a stunning declaration of authority, Alex Azar, the health secretary, barred the nation’s health agencies, including the FDA, from signing any new rules regarding the nation’s foods, medicines, medical devices and other products, including vaccines https://t.co/Y66ATzWaw9

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 20, 2020

President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the White House could override the FDA if the agency released tougher standards for the authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine https://t.co/0Jw395x4uV

— CNN (@CNN) September 24, 2020

US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn declined to comment on statements from President Trump that the White House could override the agency if it released tougher standards for the authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate https://t.co/1LQcClgOTs

— CNN (@CNN) September 24, 2020

The anti-Trump activists/visual artists who regularly project the US COVID19 death toll on the Trump hotel in DC marked the horrific milestone this evening pic.twitter.com/K6BdbDVylv

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 23, 2020

Trump keeps denying he said and did things we all heard him say and do.

This week's video is on his latest attempts to rewrite pandemic history: pic.twitter.com/dx07mFZPNg

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 19, 2020

New internal documents shed light on how politics have interfered in pandemic response @kaitlancollins reports pic.twitter.com/tVMgnEI5x5

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 18, 2020

Scott Atlas is a radiologist. I’m a doctor of health administration. That means I’m actually more qualified to advise the task force, but I was removed from the federal government because my podcast was mean to trump. https://t.co/fDCSRe0q7I

— Dr. Allison Gill (@allisongill) September 20, 2020

CDC reverses controversial coronavirus guidelines for testing people without symptoms https://t.co/gFjeFLeybC

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 19, 2020

WOW—Emails from Caputo and his science adviser show how the two refused to accept CDC science and sought to silence the agency. Lashed out at CDC staff and falsely claimed kids have “zero” risk of death. #COVID19 https://t.co/W0vqK0tNeS

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 18, 2020

📺 NEW VIDEO

Who are we to trust: a scientific expert, or a guy who stared into an eclipse? As usual, Trump lies and we die. Share this far and wide to expose Trump. #OneTrickPhony pic.twitter.com/6Sha9Hx9po

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 16, 2020

Breaking News: President Trump rebuked the CDC chief, Dr. Robert Redfield, for praising masks and for saying that a virus vaccine was unlikely to be widely available before mid-2021. https://t.co/RInmSz500v

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 16, 2020

Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now.

The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you to vote for health, science and Joe Biden for President.https://t.co/8TlH7shjFn

— Scientific American (@sciam) September 15, 2020

NYT: Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of health for public affairs, accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition" and falsely warned that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election. https://t.co/Sz4kNG03xc

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) September 14, 2020

The HHS adviser (and ally of Michael Caputo) who’s trying to tell Tony Fauci what to say — including yesterday, when he tried to stop Fauci from encouraging children to wear masks. https://t.co/fimdGwr1Z7 Big @owermohle scoop.

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) September 9, 2020

Abcarian: Trump downplays real threats and inflates fake ones, as a new book makes clear https://t.co/38O9TRZoRr (via @latimesopinion)

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 12, 2020

Trump appointees interfered with CDC’s weekly reports on Covid-19 — and even tried to halt the reports altogether.

A POLITICO investigation: https://t.co/MIUOoJYwmE

— POLITICO (@politico) September 12, 2020

Many thanks ⁦@AnaCabrera⁩ for hosting me on ⁦@CNN⁩ this evening. I never thought I would ever need to defend the ⁦@CDCMMWR⁩ perhaps the most nonpartisan apolitical accounting of disease in the US imaginable. A vital doc for the scientific public health community pic.twitter.com/KNdlDYJWBX

— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) September 12, 2020

It gets worse and worse; epidemiologists depend on CDC's MMWR Weekly Report. To learn that Trump and his appointees edited out CDC’s COVID danger warnings because they “conflicted with the presidents more optimistic message” makes me sick to my stomach. https://t.co/f0vBIzxa5V

— Larry Brilliant MD MPH FACPM 💛💙 (@larrybrilliant) September 12, 2020

Here's how Trump could bigfoot the FDA and get a vaccine out ahead of the science via @CNN https://t.co/xw9qAu5wFZ

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) September 5, 2020

Trump is so fixated on having a coronavirus vaccine that little else in meetings about the response captures his attention. He's fixated on the promise of a vaccine — real or not — as key to his reelection. w/ @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1 https://t.co/CPN2uV6YC9

— Yasmeen Abutaleb (@yabutaleb7) September 6, 2020

Opinion: Republicans are done trying to solve the pandemic and the economic crisis https://t.co/nQqlHRPMRX

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 4, 2020

1/13: New Thread: A dozen reasons why I'm worried about releasing a #COVID19 #vaccine through an emergency use authorization (EUA)

— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) September 2, 2020

Even for Trump, it was a morning of especially wild tweets, advancing conspiracy theories claiming a coup against him and an inflated virus death toll while embracing a call to imprison Cuomo and offering support for Kyle Rittenhouse. https://t.co/PlSF8ft3W2

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 30, 2020

It is so sad @gop @senategop @housegop @GOPChairwoman how OUR @potus @realDonaldTrump can retweet a QANON tweet that twists @CDCgov data so horrifically @TwitterSupport flags it (but does not stop the thread, that continues to spew idiocy. https://t.co/k9AOwzbB31@FacesOfCOVID

— David Limbaugh – DavidInMidTn on Threads (@david4potus2020) August 30, 2020

Exclusive: FEMA has told states that beginning Sept. 15 it will no longer pay for masks and PPE in most non-emergency settings — including schools, public housing and courthouses.https://t.co/kEapKu0YJA

— NPR (@NPR) September 1, 2020

The convalescent plasma decision was made entirely by FDA scientists.

— Dr. Stephen M. Hahn (@SteveFDA) August 25, 2020

The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives! @SteveFDA

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2020

Senior health officials were taken aback last Monday when the president's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, accused them of being part of the "Deep State" during a meeting that was supposed to be about COVID-19 and the Strategic National Stockpile.
https://t.co/3eop6Q7FUa

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) August 23, 2020

More on this just now from StatNews "FDA, under pressure from Trump, expected to authorize blood plasma as Covid-19 treatment" https://t.co/vMjmhohshA

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 23, 2020

So what just happened and why?

Among those skeptical there’s enough data to justify emergency authorization of plasma for COVID-19: Dr. Francis Collins of National Institutes of Health; Dr. Tony Fauci and H. Clifford Lane of National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 23, 2020

It's not whether the announcement today met EUA criteria, Scott. It's about claiming it is a breakthrough, 35% improved survival, with no hard data. I know you would never have pulled a stunt like this; you were an extraordinary leader at FDA https://t.co/7NJoR8SoGM

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 24, 2020

None of the studies of #COVID19 treatment use of serum taken from survivors (aka convalescent serum therapy) show positive results, & @US_FDA has stopped approving its use.
But @realDonaldTrump will announce a breakthru tonight.
MOREhttps://t.co/XO3IRciiky

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 23, 2020

I have been criticized for remarks I made Sunday night about the benefits of convalescent plasma. The criticism is entirely justified. What I should have said better is that the data show a relative risk reduction not an absolute risk reduction.

— Dr. Stephen M. Hahn (@SteveFDA) August 25, 2020

But, that doesn’t mean what Dr. Hahn originally said: that 35 more people — out of 100 — would survive. What that actually means is that 13.7/100 people died using low level antibody plasma, and that 8.9/100 died using the high level antibody plasma. (6/11)

— Dr. Sanjay Gupta (@drsanjaygupta) August 25, 2020

FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn is defending his administration, saying politics did not play a role in the decision to grant emergency authorization of a possible #coronavirus treatment.

Only on @CBSThisMorning, @SteveFDA joins us to discuss more on the decision. pic.twitter.com/MVz51IaKZe

— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) August 25, 2020

NEW: Inside a tumultuous week at the FDA, where staffers worry an over-the-top White House announcement on plasma has undermined the agency’s credibility. By @lauriemcginley2 @yabutaleb7 @jdawsey1 @carolynyjohnson https://t.co/s58KuDAjEh

— Brady Dennis (@brady_dennis) August 30, 2020

Days before the RNC, Trump ordered the NIH director: "Get it done by Friday."

He pushed for emergency authorization of a COVID blood plasma treatment before the convention.

The FDA hadn't finished a data review, but that Sunday, an announcement was made.https://t.co/BS0fJzUR8D

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 12, 2020

.⁦@CDCgov⁩ suddenly changed their criteria for #covid19 testing so that someone exposed to an infected person no longer needs testing. This makes no sense. People without symptoms account for up to 50% of transmission. We need MORE testing, not less https://t.co/KKEmGPmSDc

— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) August 25, 2020

The CDC, changing its Covid-19 testing guidelines, no longer recommends testing for most people without symptoms, even if they've been in close contact with someone known to have the virus. Many doctors are puzzled by the agency's change. https://t.co/UtWuq6BMM0

— CNN (@CNN) August 26, 2020

I can't remember a single incident in my nearly eight years running the CDC or 20 years working there when any entity forced the agency to change its guidance. We can't let politics get in the way of science. https://t.co/hzpvk9WXBg

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) August 28, 2020

I've never written about my war experience before, but an unexpected, casual conversation with a source early in the pandemic crystallized what I'd been feeling – living through Covid-19 is so much like living through war: https://t.co/4VEVYSY2Gh

— Angela Hart (@ahartreports) August 30, 2020