Amid Trump’s push to reopen schools, Michael Caputo’s science adviser asked that the CDC alter its warning about a study of pediatric coronavirus
Democrats, OPEN THE SCHOOLS , NOW! When schools are closed, let the money follow the child . Why should schools be paid when they are closed? They shouldn’t!Alexander's requests also complicated Kent's own efforts to change the report after she said career civil servants made similar suggestions, according to an email exchange that CDC shared with POLITICO.
"[I]f we change the title and how the cases are described, there could be an erroneous perception that we are being influenced," Kent wrote on Sept. 14 to Anne Schuchat, the CDC's no. 2 official and the agency's top civil servant. The final version of the CDC's report, published on Sept. 15, contained revisions approved by career officials like Schuchat but also in line with those sought by Alexander. For instance, the report's title was changed to remove the words "Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults" and replace them with "Persons." Meanwhile, the word "pediatric," which had appeared three times in the draft summary, did not appear in the published version of the equivalent paragraph, among other changes in the final version. “Careful monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 infections, deaths, and other severe outcomes among persons aged<21 years remains particularly important as schools reopen in the United States,” according to the published report. The draft version of that sentence, reviewed by POLITICO, used the words “children, adolescents, and young adults” instead of “persons.” The report went on to break down health and demographic data about young people who died of Covid-19. The episode is the latest example of how Trump appointees' interference has rippled across the health department — and how even when career experts can find common ground with political officials, they have been tainted by the unprecedented efforts to shape their findings. One current and two former CDC officials who reviewed the email exchange between Alexander and Kent said they were troubled by the intervention to alter scientific reports viewed as untouchable prior to the Trump administration. The resulting changes also appeared to minimize the risks of the coronavirus to children by making the report’s focus on children less clear, two individuals said.
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