House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump admin officials "to undermine" 2020 covid-19 efforts in US
(CNN) Trump administration officials
made "deliberate efforts to undermine the nation's
coronavirus response for political purposes,"
the House Select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis
said in a report released Friday.
The committee, which spent months working to interview
former Trump officials, said the administration worked to
undermine the public health response to the coronavirus
pandemic by blocking officials from speaking publicly,
watering down testing guidance and attempting to interfere
with other public health guidance.
Many pieces of the report were a summation of documents and interviews they've released throughout the year, but the report also outlined new examples where health guidance was adapted despite officials' concerns about the potential harmful effects of the trump admin directed changes.
In one instance,
Dr. Jay Butler, the deputy director for infectious diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the committee he was upset and concerned about guidance he was directed to update in May 2020 for faith communities. He said he feared that some of the altered guidance about masking and other church practices could potentially put lives at risk.
"I was doing a lot of soul searching about whether or not
I should have agreed to even make the change in the
Butler told the committee when asked about his words.
"Clearly, it was a directive, but that was a real struggle as I
felt like what had been done was NOT good public health practice."
The report also chronicled deep frustration from then-White House
Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx,
who at one point was so upset about a meeting that included
doctors whom she called part of a "fringe group"
that she told colleagues she would not attend:
"I can't be part of this with these people
who believe in herd immunity,"
Birx wrote in an email released by the committee.
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