Deaths from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in America skyrocketed over the course of 2020.
However, the US Department of Health and Human Services routinely tried to muzzle what information health officials released to the public.
Gizmodo reports HHS staffers made repeated attempts to water down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports.
They claimed that the CDC’s scientists used the reports to undermine President Donald Trump’s optimistic spin on the pandemic.
Sources say the pressure started upon the appointment of Michael Caputo as HHS spokesperson, a former Trump campaign official with no medical experience.
That’s when HHS officials began pressuring the CDC to retroactively make changes and allow them to review the reports in full before publication.
