Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), wears a protective mask during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 31, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Erin Scott-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - Dr.
Robert Redfield, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on July 31 that the organization was not “directly involved” in the Trump administration’s decision to reroute hospital data on coronavirus patients to the White House first, rather than to the health agency.Earlier this month, Michael R.
Caputo, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told the New York Times that “the new, faster and complete data.