New Emails: Top Trump Officials Made the CDC Delete Mention of Virtual Church in the Early Months of the Pandemic

During the pivotal early weeks of the pandemic, the Trump administration stopped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from suggesting tele-church or drive-in services, despite the public health agency’s reports of Americans dying from COVID-19 exposures at church and super-spreader incidents tied back to places of worship. In a batch of Trump administration emails revealed Friday by the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, top Trump White House officials told the CDC to edit out mention of virtual worship from their proposed public health guidelines. The CDC proposals in question, which were sent out on May 21, 2020,… Read Full Article