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This is exactly the wrong thing to do. At times like these it's important to allow the professionals to be able to appropriately warn the public about what could happen so we can prepare for it. The last thing we need is for the admin to be filtering statements about the virus with politics, not the public's health, in mind.
WH Moves To Screen Scientists’ Statements On Coronavirus
WH Moves To Screen Scientists' Statements On Coronavirus
As fears grow of a politicized White House response to the coronavirus outbreak, the White House has placed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of messaging about the virus, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Pence, who Trump said Wednesday night would be the White House point person on the outbreak, will clear public health officials’ statements on the virus, the Times reported citing several unnamed people familiar with the matter.
The White House also announced Thursday that top economic adviser Larry Kudlow, along with the surgeon general and the Treasury secretary, would join the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
If the Trump administration is telling public health officials at CDC or the National Institutes of Health what they can say, the Obama administration’s Ebola czar Ronald Klain tweeted of the Times’ report, “it is a danger to public health.”
Public health officials — rather than Trump loyalists like Kudlow — have been praised for speaking bluntly about the virus.
WH Moves To Screen Scientists’ Statements On Coronavirus
WH Moves To Screen Scientists' Statements On Coronavirus
As fears grow of a politicized White House response to the coronavirus outbreak, the White House has placed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of messaging about the virus, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Pence, who Trump said Wednesday night would be the White House point person on the outbreak, will clear public health officials’ statements on the virus, the Times reported citing several unnamed people familiar with the matter.
The White House also announced Thursday that top economic adviser Larry Kudlow, along with the surgeon general and the Treasury secretary, would join the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
If the Trump administration is telling public health officials at CDC or the National Institutes of Health what they can say, the Obama administration’s Ebola czar Ronald Klain tweeted of the Times’ report, “it is a danger to public health.”
Public health officials — rather than Trump loyalists like Kudlow — have been praised for speaking bluntly about the virus.