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
Executive Summary
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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