The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, in what officials characterized as an attempt to intimidate the reports’ authors and water down their communications to health professionals.
In some cases, emails from communications aides to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other senior officials openly complained that the agency’s reports would undermine President Donald Trump’s optimistic messages about the outbreak, according to emails reviewed by POLITICO and three people familiar with the situation.
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That's a Galileo moment- the Earth was indeed round and the pandemic was coming.
Trump has admitted that he misled America, justifying his statements as not wanting to cause a panic in America. That's an admission that he could not lead an American effort to minimize the danger.
The world is no less dangerous now than then.
