The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing back against the House coronavirus crisis subcommittee's accusations of "political meddling" by the Trump administration related to the pandemic. "The Subcommittee’s characterization of the conversation with Dr. Kent is irresponsible," the CDC said in a statement to Fox News. "We urge the Subcommittee to release the transcript in full which will show that during her testimony Dr. Kent repeatedly said there was no political interference in the MMWR process." Clyburn alleged in his letter that Kent said Redfield instructed employees to delete an Aug. 8 email from HHS senior advisor Dr. Paul Alexander. "Regarding the email in question, I instructed CDC staff to ignore Dr. Alexander’s comments," Redfield said in a statement.

Source: Fox News December 10, 2020 21:22 UTC