CDC Director Says Agency Not Being Muzzled; Agency Acknowledges Combining Viral, Antibody COVID-19 Test Results; Fauci Returns To Public Stage After Hiatus

CNN: CDC’s Redfield in the hot seat as White House looks for someone to blame (Holmes, 5/20).

The Economist: How the world’s premier public-health agency was handcuffed (5/23).

The Hill: CDC acknowledges mixing up coronavirus testing data (Johnson, 5/21).

The Hill: Fauci says media will be ‘seeing more’ of him, coronavirus task force after press hiatus (Moreno, 5/21).

Newsweek: Fauci Does First TV Interview for Two Weeks While Trump Allies Recruit Doctors to Campaign for Reopening Economy (Jarvis, 5/22).

NPR: Scientists Warn CDC Testing Data Could Create Misleading Picture Of Pandemic (Stein, 5/21).

POLITICO: CDC chief says he isn’t being muzzled (Ehley, 5/21).

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