Trump officials attacked CDC reports on coronavirus, downplayed COVID-19 threat, House probe finds

Political appointees in the outgoing administration of Donald Trump repeatedly interfered in more than a dozen government reports detailing scientific findings about the spread of COVID-19, a House investigation panel reported Monday.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said investigators found evidence of a "political pressure campaign" to "bully" professionals at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and says the pattern of behavior may have been a coordinated attempt to "cripple the nation's coronavirus response in a misguided effort to achieve herd immunity." — Read the rest