The war on public health experts

1 big thing

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week, the Trump administration ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention send all coronavirus-related data straight to the Department of Health and Human Services. This is just the latest step in President Trump's war on public health experts. Plus, a shakeup on Trump's 2020 campaign team. And, a major Twitter hack Wednesday night left some of the most powerful people on the platform vulnerable to a cryptocurrency scam. Guests: Axios' Sam Baker, Mike Allen, and Ina Fried. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Carol Alderman, Cara Shillenn, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Naomi Shavin and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: Trump's war on the public health experts Trump announces new campaign manager Bitcoin scam hacks Twitter accounts of Obama, Biden, Bill Gates and others Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. We've almost made it to the weekend. It's
0:05.0	Thursday, July 16. I'm Niala Boodoo. Here's how we're making you smarter today.
0:09.2	A shakeup in the Trump campaign and last night's crazy Twitter heist.
0:13.0	But first, the administration's war on public health experts
0:16.0	is today's one big thing.
0:20.0	I believe, for the most part,
0:22.0	you can trust respected medical authorities.
0:25.8	You know, I believe I'm one of them, so I think you can trust me.
0:29.9	But I would stick with respected medical authorities who have a track record of telling the truth.
0:37.0	That's Dr. Anthony Fauchy, who was attacked by White House staffer Peter Navarro in a newspaper
0:42.1	oped earlier this week.
0:43.7	Navarro accused Dr. Fauchy of being wrong about, and I'm just going to use a quote here,
0:48.8	everything they interacted on.
0:50.5	And that's just the latest in a series of efforts to undermine public health
0:54.2	officials. So the most recent thing is the Trump administration has ordered
0:59.1	hospitals around the country to start sending some of their coronavirus information over the heads of the
1:05.9	CDC. They've cut the CDC out of its role in the process. So now this information is going directly
1:11.8	to the Health and Human Services Department instead of the
1:14.7	CDC.
1:15.7	Sandbaker is the health editor for Axios.
1:17.7	I asked him what it means for the CDC fight against the pandemic to not get information like this directly.
1:24.0	So the CDC will still have access to this information,
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