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November 2, 2020 at 3:09 pm

House Dems ask Trump admin to halt COVID border expulsions

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Democratic lawmakers called on the Trump administration Monday to stop the expulsion of unaccompanied children and other asylum...

November 1, 2020 at 5:13 am

Trump admin funds plasma company based in owner’s condo

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, it noted the...

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FILE — Drs. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a House Committee hearing about the coronavirus pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2020. Pressure is mounting on the leaders of the CDC — from inside and outside the agency — to speak publicly against the White House’s manhandling of their research and public health decisions, with career scientists so demoralized they are talking of quitting if President Donald Trump wins re-election. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) XNYT14 XNYT14

October 15, 2020 at 9:43 pm

White House puts ‘politicals’ at CDC to try to control info

Two new appointees with no public-health experience arrived at the CDC over the summer with the task of helping control the messaging coming from the...

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October 3, 2020 at 6:20 am

Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused

NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal...

September 22, 2020 at 9:15 pm

Analysis: 200,000 dead as Trump vilifies science, prioritizes politics

NEW YORK (AP) — “I did the best I could,” President Donald Trump said. Huddled with aides in the West Wing last week, his eyes...

August 23, 2020 at 7:01 am

How starving public health fueled a COVID fire in Florida VIEW

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer...

July 24, 2020 at 1:11 pm

Pepcid-COVID study raised red flags weeks after $21M grant

Two months after the Trump administration awarded $21 million to study whether a common heartburn drug was effective against COVID-19, government health officials raised serious...

This June 15, 2020 photo shows a bottle of Pepcid antacid in Washington. The U.S. government’s Pepcid project has revealed what critics describe as the Trump administrationâ€™s disregard for science and anti-corruption rules meant to guard against taxpayer dollars going to political cronies or funding projects that arenâ€™t rigorously designed. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) NY317 NY317

July 23, 2020 at 7:00 am

Pepcid as a virus remedy? Trump admin’s $21M gamble fizzled VIEW

The administration's emergency contract for researchers to try Pepcid on COVID-19 victims is now under federal scrutiny after a whistleblower says it was rushed through...

May 19, 2020 at 2:28 pm

GOP fronts ‘pro-Trump’ doctors to prescribe rapid reopening

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political operatives are recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible,...

Documents that U.S. health officials have released as part of some long-delayed specific guidance that schools, businesses, and other organizations can use as states reopen from coronavirus shutdowns are photographed Thursday, May 14, 2020. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted a set of six â€œdecision toolâ€ documents. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) MDJE101 MDJE101

May 14, 2020 at 12:33 pm

CDC releases long-delayed, edited guidance on coronavirus reopening

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Thursday released some of their long-delayed guidance that schools, businesses and other organizations can use as states...

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