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Trump's war on his own medical experts has exploded into the open
Jul 15, 2020
As coronavirus rates skyrocket across multiple states in what could either be called a second wave of the pandemic or — perhaps more accurately — a grotesque continuation of the first one , the Trump administration is going to extraordinary lengths to sideline and discredit the medical experts best suited to address the catastrophic plague sweeping the nation.
This week the White House confirmed that COVID-19 patient data from hospitals around the country will no longer be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will instead be collected directly by the Department of Health and Human Services — that is, the Trump administration, itself — in what HHS spokesman Michael Caputo described to The New York Times as a "streamlined all-of-government response."
But medical professionals worry that by bypassing the CDC, the Trump administration could effectively lock down data that should be made widely available in the interest of public health.
"What logic does this have, other than to take away the data from the epidemiologists that are the best in the world at looking at this data, making sense of it, translating it for people," CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked during a recent broadcast.
"Historically, [the CDC] has been the place where public health data has been sent," Jen Kates, the Kaiser Family Foundation's director of global health and HIV policy, told the Times. "This raises questions about not just access for researchers but access for reporters, access for the public to try to better understand what is happening with the outbreak."
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