The Epoch Times 
Documents recently obtained from the National Institutes of Health suggest public health officials used inaccurate information and misrepresented medical research to advance their policy objective that masks prevent severe COVID-19 and virus transmissionâdespite opposing scientific evidence received from experts.
In a recently obtained letter (pdf)Â sent in November 2021 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), top epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and seven colleagues informed the agency it was promoting flawed data and excluding data that did not reinforce their narrative.
The letter warned the agency that misrepresenting data on trusted websites such as the CDC and the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Networkâjointly created by the CDC and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)âwould âdamage the credibility of science,â endanger public trust by âmisrepresenting the evidence,â and give the public âfalse expectationsâ masking would protect them from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
