Michael Caputo, the former Trump campaign official and Roger Stone associate ,who has no background in health care or science, was appointed to be spokesman of the Department of Health and Human Services by Trump in April, spent the weekend defending his efforts to alter the CDC’s weekly COVID-19 reports in order to protect the president politically — a defense that included baselessly claiming that scientists at the agency were deep-state agitators bent on taking down the president. The meddling and Caputo’s attacks prompted widespread outrage from infectious-disease and public-health experts.
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