Deaths from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in America skyrocketed over the course of 2020.<br />However, the US Department of Health and Human Services routinely tried to muzzle what information health officials released to the public.<br />Gizmodo reports HHS staffers made repeated attempts to water down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports.<br />They claimed that the CDC's scientists used the reports to undermine President Donald Trump’s optimistic spin on the pandemic.<br />Sources say the pressure started upon the appointment of Michael Caputo as HHS spokesperson, a former Trump campaign official with no medical experience.<br />That's when HHS officials began pressuring the CDC to retroactively make changes and allow them to review the reports in full before publication.
