N.I.H. Official Departs After Anonymous Posts Attacking Public Health Leaders
WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health said on Monday that one of its public affairs officers would retire after he was revealed to be...
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C.D.C. Reverses Testing Guidelines for People Without Covid-19 Symptoms
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reversed a controversial recommendation suggesting people who have had close contact with a person infected with...
Emails Detail Effort to Silence C.D.C. and Question Its Science
WASHINGTON — On June 30, as the coronavirus was cresting toward its summer peak, Dr. Paul Alexander, a new science adviser at the Department of...
C.D.C. Didn’t Write Testing Guidance Published on Its Website, Officials Say
A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written...
Trump Scorns His Own Scientists Over Virus Data
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday rejected the professional scientific conclusions of his own government about the prospects for a widely available coronavirus vaccine and...
Trump Health Official Apologizes for Facebook Outburst
WASHINGTON — Michael R. Caputo, the assistant secretary of health for public affairs, apologized Tuesday morning to the health secretary, Alex M. Azar II, and...
Trump’s Perverse Campaign Strategy
On Sunday, Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, warned of left-wing insurrectionists and “sedition” within...
Trump Health Aide Falsely Alleges Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt
WASHINGTON — The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus made outlandish and false accusations on Sunday that...
Top Trump Health Aide Attacks Scientists and Warns of Armed Revolt
WASHINGTON — The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus accused career government scientists on Sunday of “sedition”...
Trump Issues Expansive Order Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday issued a far-reaching executive order aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, but the pharmaceutical industry immediately denounced...