Many Democrats questioned whether the Trump administration was interfering politically with questions of science and evidence throughout the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Democrats made many claims that were eventually proven false regarding the potential rushing of development and production of vaccines, even going so far as to say people should not take the vaccine unless there was “independent verification.” Those claims have all been debunked over time. However, there is certainly evidence that Trump injected himself actively into the proceedings of his own task force, and that Vice President Mike Pence’s office tried to steer the CDC to filing reports that were more conducive to the president’s political narrative.
One of Joe Biden’s primary arguments for being elected president was to change all that and set the country on a more evidence-based policy approach. So far, the results are disappointing.
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