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GAO To Investigate Trump Admin Attacks On Scientific Integrity At FDA, CDC

HHS policy change stripping FDA of authority to oversee laboratory developed tests to be scrutinized

 
• By Sue Darcey

The US watchdog agency accedes to three senators’ request to look into political pressures placed on the FDA and the CDC to alter the science behind their COVID-19 responses.

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The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has agreed to investigate key lawmakers’ assertions that the Trump administration has applied pressure to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), skewing the scientific integrity of the agencies’ COVID-19 responses.

In a recent letter sent to Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Patty Murray of Washington state and Gary...

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