Former CDC chief says Trump appointees blocked his agency from briefing public on COVID-19 - ABC News

In closed-door testimony to House investigators released on Friday, Dr. Bob Redfield, former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, former President Donald Trump appointees repeatedly blocked his public health experts from briefing the American public…

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cdc-chief-trump-appointees-blocked-agency-briefing-public/story

Former Trump officials say coronavirus response was worse than known - The Washington Post

...'That's what bothers me every day': Birx and others admit failures that hampered the White House response...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/29/trump-officials-tell-all-coronavirus-response/

CDC director takes aim at Trump's Covid adviser: 'Everything he says is false'

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was overheard on a phone conversation aboard a commercial flight saying a lead member of Donald Trump’s coronavirus taskforce has been spreading misinformation about the pandemic. Robert Redfield was overheard by an employee of NBC News on a flight from Atlanta to Washington. According to NBC, Redfield criticized Scott Atlas, a radiologist and Fox News talking head added to the taskforce last month.....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/covid-coronavirus-cdc-director-robert-redfield-trump-adviser-scott-atlas

Trump’s strange quibble with his CDC director’s quote reinforces the danger of his coronavirus alternate reality - The Washington Post

It's not the first time Trump has bristled at a health official being too grim about what lay ahead — and the last time arguably cost us dearly....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/22/trumps-strange-quibble-with-his-cdc-directors-quote-reinforces-danger-his-coronavirus-alternate-reality/

We Should Be Concerned About Trump's Latest Pick to Lead the CDC - Rewire.News

Under George W. Bush, Robert Redfield helped to shape government policy on HIV by promoting a long-discredited theory that abstinence-only education was the best way to combat the spread of the disease.....

https://rewire.news/article/2018/03/29/concerned-trumps-latest-pick-lead-cdc/