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On June 30, as the coronavirus was approaching its summer peak, Dr. Paul Alexander, a new scientific adviser to the Department of Health and Human Services, composed a scathing two-page critique of an interview by a revered scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, a 32-year veteran of the CDC and its senior deputy director, had asked Americans to wear masks and warned: “We have too much virus across the country.” But Dr. Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods, seemed confident of a better understanding of the coronavirus.
“Their goal is to embarrass the president,” he wrote, commenting on Dr. Schuchat’s call for masks in an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association. …
Point-by-point evaluation of Dr. Alexander, divided into seven parts and sent by Mr. Caputo to Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the CDC director, was one of several emails obtained by The New York Times illustrating how Mr. Caputo and Dr. Alexander attempted to intimidate career CDC officials at the height of the pandemic, challenging the science behind their public statements and trying to silence agency staff.
