Michael Caputo, the federal Health and Human Services official who recently took a 60-day leave of absence, has been diagnosed with 'squamous cell carcinoma, a metastatic head and neck cancer which originated in his throat.'
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Caputo has faced scrutiny in recent weeks after being accused of trying to manipulate COVID-19 data for political purposes. His medical leave was announced shortly after he apologized to his staff for a Facebook video in which he reportedly said scientists battling the coronavirus are conspiring against President Donald Trump.Without offering evidence, Caputo accused scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of"sedition" and falsely claimed they had formed a"resistance unit" against Trump.
Several news outlets also reported that Caputo and scientific adviser Paul Alexander pressured the CDC to change its weekly reports, at times retroactively, to better align with Trump’s public statements about the coronavirus. Trump has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the outbreak. Trump appointed Caputo – a longtime friend and Republican political operative who had no health care experience but worked on his 2016 campaign – to HHS in April as daily deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus spiked.
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