State Department officials overrode science-based concerns of CDC officials and allowed 14 infected people to board an airplane with over 300 non-infected people.
An official memo, issued by NOAA, stated that the agency’s “preferred approach” is making “no reference to anything COVID related” in public-facing documents.
Scientists at the CDC were ignored by the White House when they stated that the best available science shows that temperature checks are not a reliable tool for screening COVID-19.
The Trump administration defunded a National Institutes of Health grant supporting research on bat-human virus transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.