COVID-19
Report: CDC Coordinated with Teachers’ Unions on School Reopening Guidance
A report released Wednesday by Republican lawmakers on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis reveals that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coordinated quite closely with teachers’ unions.
The partnership had “an extraordinary level in crafting its school reopening guidance, despite the agency’s earlier claims that such coordination was routine and nonpolitical” reports Fox News Digital which reviewed the report.
Republicans write in the report that emails between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the White House, and the CDC shows that the AFT’s “cozy relationship with the Biden administration’s political leadership at the CDC positioned the union to impose line-by-line edits” to the reopening guidance.
The behavior was despite the CDC’s insistence of “past practice to keep draft guidance confidential.” Fox News previously reported how the AFT and National Education Association teachers’ unions received a copy of the CDC’s guidance before they released it to the public.
On February 11, 2021, AFT’s senior director of health issues, Kelly Trautner, personally emailed CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky asking her to make an edit to add this specific line:
“In the event high-community transmission results from a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, a new update of these guidelines may be necessary.” Walensky then forwarded the email to Dr. Henry Walke, the director of the CDC’s Center for Preparedness and Response. Walke then made the addition for the union, and it was released the very next day.
In a joint statement provided exclusively to Fox News Digital, Republican Reps. Steve Scalise and James Comer accused President Biden of rewarding one of his biggest political donors while millions of children suffered from school closures.
Republican Representatives Steve Scalise and James Comer sent joint statement exclusively to Fox News Digital:
“The facts are clear: Biden’s CDC overrode routine practice to allow a radical teachers union that donated millions of dollars to Democrat campaigns to bypass scientific norms and rewrite official agency guidance,” Scalise and Comer wrote.
“The damaging edits by union bosses effectively kept thousands of schools shuttered across the country, locking millions of children out of their classrooms. The Biden Administration abandoned medical science and replaced it with political science to reward one of their largest donors, harming millions of children in the process. They bypassed the science to put union bosses ahead of children.
“Millions of Americans are still outraged at what these Washington Democrats put their children through, and all because union bosses demanded they keep schools closed longer,” they continued.
“America’s children are suffering, academically and mentally, because of the Biden Administration enabled school closures. Republicans will not rest until we uncover all the facts and hold everyone accountable who was involved in holding back millions of children from having equal opportunity to achieve the American Dream.”
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sent a letter to CIA director William Burns discussing the CIA and a COVID-19 cover-up. The letter asserts that it has knowledge from a whistleblower from the CIA’s “Covid Discovery Team” that was tasked with investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus. “New testimony from a highly credibly whistleblower” alleges that the CIA “rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis
Apart from a “lone officer” in the group who believed the virus “originated through zoonosis,” the remaining officials agreed that, on balance of probabilities, the coronavirus was likely the result of a lab-leak.
“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that Covid-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” the letter reads. “To come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”
In June, the agency declassified its report that the available evidence on the origins of the coronavirus suggested it “was not genetically engineered.”
🚨BREAKING🚨
New testimony from a highly credible whistleblower alleges @CIA rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis. pic.twitter.com/KIemfi2Wgl
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) September 12, 2023
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Dagney Taggert
March 31, 2022 at 11:23 am
EVERY tax payer in this nation should receive a FULL REFUND of ALL SCHOOL TAXES paid in the last year. The schools, teachers, and ALL employees that were paid TO DO NOTHING should have every penny of said pay recalled immediately.
EVERY person that contributed to this FRAUD in the schools should be prohibited from working with children EVER AGAIN.
John
March 31, 2022 at 4:11 pm
so indirectly CCP
joebthegroper
April 3, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Teachers’ ” unions” are supposed to be used for collective bargaining and addressing legitimate grievances for their members. Where is it written that they are also the ones to dictate what the school curricula are supposed to be? Hopefully these runaway trains will be reined in or abolished. The great liberal FDR was adamantly against public employees being unionized for precisely these types of reasons.