CDC Official Alleges She Was Ordered to Delete Email

CDC Official Alleges She Was Ordered to Delete Email
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters is seen in Atlanta, Ga., in a file photograph. Tami Chappell/Reuters
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A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) senior manager told congressional investigators this week that she was instructed to delete an email showing a Trump administration appointee attempting to interfere with a scientific report on the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

According to a partial transcript released by House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Dr. Charlotte Kent, Chief of the Scientific Publications Branch and Editor-in-Chief of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) at CDC, testified that she believes the deletion of the email was ordered by CDC Director Robert Redfield.

Isabel van Brugen
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