we were just, as i mentioned, instructed by hhs and omb to transfer the funds to hhs aspa. >> what role is cdc going to play in making sure the messages put out will include accurate public health information based on science? >> again, senator, at this moment we haven't been involved other than to be given the directive from hhs and omb to transfer the funds. >> so funds only you're not going to help them with information to make sure it's accurate? >> well, again, i would assume that they would want our instruction to do all of that. but i -- we haven't been involved in this other than the extent that the funds were transferred to hhs and i assume that they're going to come back to the different subject matter experts. but again, we haven't been involved in that. >> okay. dr. giroir, what role are you going to play in making sure the immediate caw ca -- the campaign will be used for science. >> i have not been involved in any discussions. i've only been asked peripherally, which i think is the same campaign, to be subject to questions and to have a lyle og about public health issues.

you are among hhs's top health officials. what are you doing to protect scientific integrity of the work done by the scientists and public health experts at cdc, hersa and nih from political interference? >> part of my job is the scientific adviser to the sec a tear is to make sure he gets the best science and best evidence based that's unfiltered. i do that every single day. i work with bob redfield, francis collins and i are on speed dials, tom engels, very, very important. so you have my commitment as you always have, senator, that i will provide the best advice to the decision makers that will be based on science and evidence and that's the way we're going to operate going forward. >> can you, right now,unfounded conspiracy theory that career professional leadership or cdc or any of our public health agencies have quote, deep state ulterior motives that compromise their ability to act in the best interest of public health as other trump political appointees have claimed? can you reject that, yes or no? >> i have not seen

ladies and gentlemen, that's sedition >> he's apologized to staff at the hhs, he's not responded to nbcfor any comments. joining me now is health care reporter for politico. adam carcryn quite the development this afternoon. i want to play more of that sound obtained by yahoo! news of caputo watch. >> whether it's the buffalo news or "the new york times" or the wall street journal, or any of these media outlets, i'm under siege. it's been going on for a couple of weeks and -- i don't care. because i have the president's support, i know that, because he's told me so. i'm not going anywhere they're going to have to kill me and unfortunately, i think that's where this is going. >> quite the statement there, hhs says caputo is focusing on his health for the next two months, what do you think will happen caputo after all this do you have any evidence that the president will continue to protect him? >> thank you for having me that's the big question at this point, 60-day medical leave, that puts us beyond the election, at that point, we'll have to see what happens, we asked the white house ea

in your view should be the hhs led research agenda as the nation seeks to understand more about what has happened during the pandemic and what kinds of efforts should be sustained afterwards? >> what in your view should be the hhs lead agenda as they seek to understand what happened during the pandemic and the efforts to be sustained afterwards? >> it is proving to be a valuable part of the covid response. it is such an unprecedented disease.rn and learning how to treat patients with covid so much better as time has progressed months. last several with the fundinga opportunity with health medicine and treatment pathways and protocols and the idea is to find investigations to get information on a very short timeframe to get that out there and replicateonon that to enhance learning. we saw one of the key impacts with the south and the southwes southwest, we went this in march and april in a new and new jersey and connecticut. and learning from each other so much of the rest of america was not terribly impactedd then places like florida texas arizona and southern california. we had to w

emily newman went over to hhs at the beginning of the year, an administration veteran, someone who'siller in the white house she and her team imposed more of a white house-led initiative on hhs and secretary alex azar. emily newman earlier this year went to voice of america, she's been in seat there for three months, her deputy liaison was running all personnel at hhs and as you pointed out she's someone as rekrenly this spring was university of michigan taking college class. >> reporter: what she was doing there when we talk about her ability to impact policy? >> i think the biggest frustration for some senior officials is that the white house liaisons have been pushed in to scrutinize career civil servants in their response around the pandemic or try to shape the overall messaging in the middle of this crisis. we have reported about the spokesperson michael caputo who's now on medical leave, he worked and tried to shape the reports coming from the cdc. katherine was someone who enlisted in the that effort to scrutinize the cdc and try to make sure that their messages were lining up

another example of hhs repudiation of its mission hhs issued a grappling on number 2019 where states eliminated nondiscrimination protections for people seeking hhs programs and services. this has led to $525 billion a year to millions of people in a wide array of programming that includes hiv prevention programs, programs is an older americans like meals on wheels, rams serving homeless and early childhood programs. the rule is finalized would have a devastating impact on lgbtq people especially it would have a devastating impact on you. there are more than hundred 25,000 who cannot return to their families of origin and it's reprehensible hhs is seeking full agencies to turn away adoptive parents and jeopardize the opportunityfor placement . and yet one more example of hhs earning commission on its head is hhs issued a ruling 2019 among other things improperly interpreted statutory religion exemption to restrict the number of people who claim and the kind of healthcare that can be denied essentially inviting healthcare provider to deny treatment. the justification that will is a su

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now, we've learned that those august guidelines were actually drafted by hhs.ey were posted on the cdc website, even before the cdc could vet them. remember, those guidelines had a lot of experts scratching their head. how does this happen? >> well, hhs is also staffed by not just experts but also a lot of political appointees. so it functions as a much more political organization, than does the cdc, which is essentially career, lifelong, science bureaucrats who have been doing these jobs under both -- both political parties, administrations of both sides. and so, it's just a very different process at the cdc, that's really driven by science, as opposed to hhs. >> but do you think the cdc's credibility has taken a hit? because it wasn't just those testing guidelines that we now learned were put on there by hhs, on the cdc website. and nobody at cdc said we didn't put those there. this wasn't vetted from us, you know, until reporting that came out this week. and then, there was the reportireport last week of course about the report that was altered by hhs that w

the cdc offered assistance to china that same week the hhs convened an interagency task force with hhs'szar, the cdc head and dr. fauci. on the 8th, the cdc issued a warning about covid-19. all of that, that's all within basically the first week of january. >> right. and it's important to -- i mean, the purpose of the story was to look at that timeline, because so much of it was squandered. preparing for the outbreak of a novel virus like the coronavirus, experts and professionals will tell you requires sort of worst-case scenario thinking from the very beginning. it requires taking preparations that ultimately might not be necessary and that you hope will not be necessary, but you won't have time to take care of later and that's sort of what we are facing in the united states now. these delays set back the development of testing, which contributed heavily to the out -- to the inability to track the outbreaks in places like seattle, los angeles, and, of course, new york. it contributed to the inability of the government to procure badly needed supplies that are now in acute shortages at

stunning schumer wants azar to step down in the middle of a pandemic but did not comment on another hhs official in the spotlight tonight, michael caputo in a now deleted facebook live video caputo plugged conspiracy theories according to the "new york times" accusing cdc scientists of sedition or inciting rebellion against the president, forming a resistance unit to undermine him and accusing left wing agitators of plotting violence if president trump wins predicting the shooting will begin after his inauguration caputo, a long-time loyalist with no scientific background, also acknowledged the strain on his mental health today he reportedly apologized for the outburst and is considering a leave of absence according to "the times" which also says an hhs person calls him a critical, integral part of the pandemic response neither caputo nor hss responded to nbc news' request for comment on the apology. on the coronavirus response, house speaker nancy pelosi says today she wants to work toward covid relief but so far neither side has agreed to restart talks. lester >> thanks. >>> at the wh

you were at hhs where a plan would have had a significant home in generation. why three years in should trump supporters and other voters who are thinking about voting for him have trust that he is going to come up with a plan when he's had all this time and hasn't? >> i think the contrast to where we find ourselves right now is that there are real challenges in the health care system, and the question is what is the answer? how do we get ourselves to a better place in terms of our health care systems? what the administration has been working on and i know individuals, my old friends, former colleagues in the u.s. house and in the u.s. senate, they've been working on issues to make certain that we don't put the government in charge of things because we know when that happens then people are further removed from being able to communicate with their doctor and get the treatment. >> fine. that doesn't mean you don't have a plan. why doesn't he have a plan three and a half years in? >> you have to ask folks who are there now. if i had the privilege to stick around

working to down play this is acrisis and on fri night, we learned that trump political operatives in hhs communications office have been manipulating cdc's flag ship for months to align with that messaging. dr. redfield, did anyone at cdc advise the president to down play this crisis? >> no. >> did you agree with the president's decision to down play it? >> i'm not going to comment on that, but no one advised the president to down play this crisis. >> well, understanding the dangers, why have you not done more to push back on president trump's political interference and his efforts to down play this? >> i want to make it really clear, senator, and i appreciate your question and the opportunity that, the respect for the science at cdc. at no time has the scientific integrity of the mmwor been compromise and i can say that under my watch, it will not be compromised. >> well, i understand the efforts to edit the cdc publication started in response to a may report that reviewed the spread of covid-19 in the u.s., it was by cdc, highly respected career deputy, hhs political officials perceive

our science, our approvals have never had to go through the hhs. >> reporter: and friday the cdc fine apple confirmed that covid particles can float in the air, making it more infectious. today the cdc took that guidance down claiming that draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency's official website. >> the fact that they retracted this even though it is common scientific knowledge at this point, one has to wonder what is behind it, was there preliminary pressure? >> reporter: and well 234678ed opinion on how long is this tunnel, how far away is the light. >> end of the epidemic best case is probably 2022, but during 2021, the numbers we should be able to drive them down if we take the global approach. >> reporter: now, just going back to that cdc guidance posted and then taken down, one federal official tells us, this was not preliminary, this was a mistake, somebody hit the button and shouldn't have. apparently they are currently revising that guidance, unclear when they will repost it. and it will be interesting to see when they do

secretary and the white house. >> it implies that hhs is going to be serving a sensorship function.pprovals have never had to go through hhs in order to get released to the general public. >> reporter: friday, the cdc finally confirmed that covid particles can float in the air, makes this virus even more infectious. today, the cdc took that guidance down, claiming a draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency's official website. >> the fact that they retracted this, one has to wonder what's behind it. was there political pressure? >> reporter: now, one federal official tells cnn that this was all the cdc's doing. it was a mistake, it was posted before the guideline was properly reviewed. somebody hit the button and shouldn't have is what we're told. currently we're told it's being revised, unclear when the guidance will be reposted. and, jake, it's going to be interesting to see if it's any different when it is reposted. >> all right. nick watt, thank you so much. let's bring in the dean of brown university medical school, brown unive

and now politico reports that a trump administration official at hhs is trying to prevent dr.discussing the risks the virus poses to children as trump aggressively pushes for schools to reopen. trump administration appointee paul alexander, you should remember that name, paul alexander e-mailed to fauci's press team, "can you ensure dr. fauci indicates masks are for the teachers in schools, not for children? there is no data, none, zero, across the entire world that shows children, especially young children, spread this virus to other children or to adults or to their teachers." that's not true! that's absolutely false. it's wildly irresponsible. the data is unclear in certain ways, but we know that children can spread it. just ask, for instance, the 260 children and staff at a georgia overnight camp who tested positive for the virus. the thing is the deadly cover-up that's revealed on that woodward tape, the one that we found out about yesterday, is still happening right now as i speak to you. to really understand the gravity of all this i want to bring in kathleen sebelius w

is someone who was brought on early on during the coronavirus basically to serve as a check on the hhs secretary alex azar when there was distrust of him. he is someone who is a political ally of the president, a long-time friend of roger stone, that kind of person. the question of whether or not he's staying or going is still to be determined. overall the response on coronavirus here is still being harshly judged. you can see the president now in that abc town hall that you showed at the beginning of this where he is trying to change what he has been saying publicly about this. not only did he admit to privately down playing -- or to privately acknowledging the dangers of coronavirus to bob woodward on those audio tapes, he defended doing so just last week. and now he is trying to say he did the opposite by the action he took when we have seen what the white house did or did not do in the month of february when it comes to coronavirus. >> thank you very much, kaitlan. i want to go to dr. rjha. it's been a huge struggle and a fill your so much of the way. you're doing so much to change

according to hospital burden. >> hhs calls that a fundamental misunderstanding of its system with a official telling us the government has been able to fairly allocate distribution of enough medicine to treat 650,000 people in a fair and equitable process. in a statement the white house said anytime the trump administration has had a request from a governor for increased supply of remedies veer we've been able to meet those demands can but some democratic senators have been asking questions about remdesivir since may, writing in letters to the administration, that the remdesivir distribution plan appeared to be shrouded in secrecy. maryland senator chris van holland. have you gotten responses to either letter at this point? >> no. we've not heard anything. i think it's an indication that the administration does not want to be transparent about its decision making process. i am -- that, of course, hurts all of us. >> reporter: he says transpapersy is key, not just for this drug but for future covid-19 treatments or vaccines. >> if we're facing this degree of mismanagement today, thes

caputo came in to hhs and very quickly started making a mark. he pushed different agency officials in the fda, cdc, nih to try and line up more with the president's message on the outbreak, which is very different than the message that scientists have come to. >> yeah. i mean, the message has at every turn, right, been optimistic. we're turning the corner and cases are going down to zero. young people are fine. i mean, public health people tend to be people that are worried about the worst risks and try to communicate those ably. i want to talk for a second just about the morbidity mortality weekly report. i remember my dad was in public health, i remember growing up we used to get it at the house. i thought it was such a hilariously titled publication. i've had multiple public health people say this is the golden standard publication in public health in the world. for michael caputo to be editing it or massaging it is shocking and horrifying to them. >> well, first the mmwr is a family subscription in the hayes household. it sounds about right

in your view should be the hhs led research agenda as the nation seeks to understand more about what has happened during the pandemic and what kinds of efforts should be sustained afterwards? provenar: i think >> has to be a valuable part of the covid response. this is such an unprecedented disease and its impact on the health system is so unique. we are really learning. you can see we are learning how to treat patients with covid so much better as the time has progressed over the last several months. one of the key things we are doing as a funding opportunity with investigations as you mention, telemedicine and also treatment pathways and protocols in the idea would be to fund investigations to get information out on a short four to six month timeframe so we can replicate that and enhance learning's. we saw one of the key impacts of this with the south in the southwest. what we saw was we went through marchith the height in and early april in new york and new jersey and connecticut. as we were convening health care providers, health systems and they were learning from each other, so

it implies that hhs is going to be serving a censorship function. our science, our approvals have never had to go through hhs in order to get released to the general public. this is suggesting that they want to have first look and have the chance to edit and potentially suppress or promote knowledge that the rest of the scientific community doesn't support. >> so there's no -- there's no law. there's no precedent for saying, you know, the public gets to see all of the data on a vaccine once it's released, totally unedited, that's not mandated to happen? >> so the way that it usually happens is that the data on new drugs and vaccines goes to the fda. there's a committee there that views it and makes decisions about emergency use authorizations or about full approval. i mean in, general that gets released in per-reviewed publications and gets available through freedom of information act, et cetera. what's unusual here is hhs saying that they have the final say, that they get to approve stuff on top of what the fda or the cdc is doing. >> listen, we im

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is this the kind of person that should be influencing what americans hear from hhs and cdc right now? how the press office is supposed to work? >> well, one of the most important documents that comes out of cdc every week is called the mmwr, morbidity weekly report. the idea that there would be political efforts to change this journal, this important means of communication really unit eunde trust in public health and hearing this is another example of where politics is interfering with the path public health is laying out for us to successfully manage this pan de pandemic and get the economy up and running. >> what kind of an impact does the spokesperson for hhs accusing scientists, government scientists of sedition and floating unproven conspiracies, i mean, it has the potential, i imagine of having some sort of a chilling effect on everybody who works at, you know, all the arms of the hhs. >> well, fundamentally here, the enemy is a virus, and the virus doesn't respond to spin. it responds to science-driven action. what we're seeing is an attempt to meddle with science and the somew

. >> one of your view should be the hhs lease research agenda as it seeks to understand more and more during the pandemic and what kinds of efforts to be sustained "after words". >> as leadership, i think it's really proving to be a valuable part of the coping response. this is such an unprecedented disease in the ends packed on the health system is so unique and were really learning, you can see we are learning how to treat patients with covid, so much better are the time has progressed over the last several months, one of the key things is a funding opportunity with investigationsti as you mentiond telemedicine but also treatment pathways and protocols in the idea would be to fund investigation and get information out on a very short 4 - 6 month timeframe so we cann get that out there and replicate it and enhance learnings. we saw one of the key impacts of this with the south in the southwest, what we saw we went through this in early april in new york, new jersey, connecticut and as we were competing healthcare providers and health systems and they were learning from each other so

and now political reports that a trump administration official at hhs is trying to prevent dr. fauci from discussing the risks the virus poses to children as trump aggressively pushes for schools to reopen. paul alexander, you should remember that name, paul alexander e-mailed to fauci's press team, can you ensure dr. fauci indicates the masks are for teachers in schools, not children. that's not true! that's absolutely false. it's wildly irresponsible. the data is unclear in certain ways, but we know that children can spread it. just ask, for instance, the 260 children and staff at a georgia overnight camp who tested positive for the virus. the thing is the deadly cover-up that's revealed on that woodward tape, the one that we found out about yesterday is still happening right now as i speak to you. to really understand the gravity of this i want to bring in the secretary of health and human services under president barack obama. it is great to have you on again. i guess i will start today with something that has been consistent for six months, and that is the president saying

he was a trump campaign aide but once the trump white house installed him at hhs, mr. caputo reportedly demanded all sorts of changes to the cdc's scientific output, including their previously sacrosanct weekly scientific reports mr. caputo reportedly delayed the publication of cdc guidance about the risk of covid in schools and school-like environments because of the risk that might undermine the president's messaging that all schools should be opened regardless of the coronavirus crisis well, mr. caputo is now gone with him gone, i guess, that means there's nobody standing in the way of cdc reports like this one, which has finally just come out. a study of whether covid can spread among kids in child care environments and in schools and according to this brand-new released study from the cdc, school-aged kids cannot only spread the virus between each other in the classroom, they're also then very capable of taking the virus home with them, taking the virus out of the classroom to infect other people in their homes, including the adults at home, even if they are asymp

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this was evident in february when we met with hhs and it continues to be the case here. we hear lots of triumphant entertainments with lots of data, but on the ground people still lack resources. thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator baldwin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. so the administration's failure to confront this deadly pandemic has led to lost lives. there is still an urgent need to provide more support to our communities and i'm increasingly concerned that the funds appropriated thus far have not been handled as well as they could. they've been misused and mishandled. last month i wrote to vice president pence about a health system in my state that temporarily suspended covid testing for patients undergoing surgery because of the supply shortages. i've heard from assisted living facilities that they can't get the tests that they've ordered and academic medical centers that aren't able to secure a reliable source of reagent. however, wisconsin did receive unrequested hydroxychloroquine before it ever received a ventilator. congress provided more than $16 billion for

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frieden, i mean, what kind of an impact does, you know, the spokesperson for hhs accusing scientists,ts, of sedition and, you know, floating unproven conspira conspiracies. it has the potential, i imagine, of having some sort of a chilling effect on everybody who works at, you know, all the arms of the hhs. >> well, fundamentally, here, the enemy is a virus. and the virus doesn't respond to spin. it responds to science-driven action. what we're seeing is an attempt to meddle with science. and the somewhat bizarre comments that stating scientific truths is, in some way, politically motivated. now, one of the things that's interesting is that, despite this enormous and inappropriate pressure, the scientists at cdc have continued to put out excellent information, as recently as last week. an mmwr, as dr. besser mentioned, this is the weekly bulletin of the cdc and widely respected and copied by public-health organizations, all over the world. last week, they put out a bulletin with a very rigorous scientific analysis of spread of covid, from child care. proving that it spread, within the

really takes you intide this moment, this is january 31st, earlier this year, where alex azar of the hhsmes in, mulvaney, the chief of staff at the time, was there, fauci is there, redfield is there, and they say, look, we think we have got to ban travel from china, and the president says, okay, according to woodward, he says, to tony fauci, does -- is that what you think, should we, and he says, yes. and then they go and they announce this travel ban and as you well know, as the chief white house correspondent, it is much different story that president trump has been telling ever since then, he now tells a story in which he alone in standing up to his experts decided to ban travel from china, most travel from china, and therefore headed off an even more dire situation. so it is just one example where the public and the private aren't matching up, the most glaring example, of course, the one reported on for the last few days where in february 7th, woodward does an interview with trump, trump says that the coronavirus is deadly, five times more deadly than the flu, and it is airborne, and

himself look better, all at the expense of american voters. >> kenna, the fact that we're seeing the hhs spokesperson is encouraging the cdc not to speak straightly and overtly to the american public, what concerns should we have that the american public won't take the cdc seriously in a time of pandemic? >> well, the cdc is who we rely on for a lot of our public health reporting. and particularly, the cdc is what communities rely on to address health disparities. these numbers in terms of how covid-19 has impacted disproportionately black communities. when we're talking about the impact that this is having, the impact the president withholding this information has had, the victims of this situation, the victims are the very black voters that the president needs to outreach to. so it's more information. as it comes out from the cdc as we hear, this impacts the communities that early on we were hearing were disproportionately contracting and dying from the virus. and that were black and latino communities. >> and i think that this is one of the bigger dangers is the racial disparities tha

part this we are gravely concerned by reports showing that the president's political appointees at hhsdownplay the risk of the coronavirus by attempting to alter, delay, and block critical scientific reports from the cdc during the pandemic, experts have relied on these reports to determine how the virus spreads and who is at greatest risk, yet hhs officials have apparently reviewed these scientific reports as opportunities for political manipulation, and "the new york times" is reporting that joe biden's campaign is creating a major legal operation, bringing in two former slis tors general and hundreds of lawyers as part of the largest election program in presidential campaign history. biden officials describe the move as necessary to guard tin ted grit of this election as concern is already being raised over how people will vote and how ballots will be counted amidst this pandemic the operation is being overseen by dana remus, who has served as biden's general counsel on the campaign trail and bob bauer, a white house adviser during the obama administration who joined the biden campa

. >> too many people within hhs are trying to suppressiee. the secretary of health and human services has not only failed to push back against these outrageous moves by president trump, he's been almost entirely silence about the chaos and mismanagement in his own agency >> reporter: the white house says it's stunning that he would call for the secretary to step down in the middle of a pandemic also a focus of this investigation, the public affairs chief at hhs, accused in a new york times report of calling scientists or accusing scientists of sedition and rebellion in how they've been dealing with coronavirus, rebellion against the president trying to undermine him. no comment on that but he reportedly said he's been suffering mental health issues from all of this, the stress and is considering a lee of absence. >> many layers when it comes to this >>> an uptick in the number of coronavirus cases not just here in the u.s. but around the world and now bill and me linda gates are speaking out about the timing of a vaccine. >> reporter: progres

the contract with phillips, the belgian company, was executed by hhs. there's a unit and that was not -- >> did you negotiate -- >> hang on. hang on. number two, this whole thing with phillips is kind of weird. let me explain. they have two kinds of ventilators. one's let's call it the dirt bite version. it's a small ventilator, sells for about 3 grand that you can use out in the field, it has limited functionality. they have a $15,000 ventilator, that's the one you would want, alisyn, if god forbid, you were in the icu in the later stages of the disease. all right? and so two different functionalities. it's the dirt bike versus the bmw. >> i get it. >> with respect to phillips, hhs had the option of either buying the $15,000 one or getting multiple ones of the other one. this is a court case so i have to tread lightly here. but all that stuff you're seeing in the fake news -- look, alisyn, let's be honest here. when somebody from the democratic controlled house does an investigation of this administration, that is a partisan witch-hunt like we have sho

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we learned this week president trump has been downplaying the virus, that now hhs officials have been trying to alter cdc reports to align with the president's messaging. we learned of this new model that says 415,000 americans could die from coronavirus by january. and yet, paul, none of that seems to be impacting their support for the president. >> no. this is really the tragedy of the consequences of mr. trump's lies. a lot of americans, a lot of good americans, rely on him, and they believe him. okay, i don't, i'm a democrat, i don't like him, plablah, blah, blah. but there's a lot of really good people who are going to get sick and die because the president is dying to them. it has enormous consequences. it's heart breaking. it's really the worst thing a president can do is to endanger the lives of his fellow americans knowingly. we know from mr. woodward's book, from the tapes that have been released, that the purpo president is purposefully lying to us and the supporters who believe him. it's outrageous. i'm glad boris is there covering that rally. i wish i could say i want you

politico reports following the apointment of michael caputo to the department of hhs, there has been to add caveats to the morbidity weekly reports to align more closely with what president trump has been saying publicly to the american people, what can you tell us about these reports and how medical professional n aals in your fiey on them. >> thank you very much, ayman. morbidity mortality report published five cases of this rare pneumonia that's found only in immonocompromised individuals with aids inspect in 2001, the anthrax attacks, it's helped us understand the ebola epidemic occurred in africa, this is the text to which scientists go to and medical professionals go to understand when there's an emerging entity and when there's changing epidemiology, it's the cannon off of which we understand the building of scientific knowledge around these type of issues and by basically messing with it for political reasons, a few things they've managed to accomplish, one, it just personally as an infectious disease physician nauseates me, because this is part of our community. they're mess