The government-run website Covid.gov is used to host information about Covid-19-19 vaccines, testing and treatments. Now, under President Trump’s authority, this page Redirect to the White House website Advocate an unproven theory that Covid-19 originated in Chinese laboratories.
This theory is opposed by many virologists and is embraced In the report Last year, House Republicans determined that the pandemic began with a lab leak in China. House Democrats Refutation was issued At the time, it was pointed out that the probe could not determine the true origin of Covid.
Covidtests.gov website, where people could previously order free coronavirus tests, also redirect to this New page.
The new White House website also includes medical disinformation about the virus treatment, falsely claiming social distancing, cover authorization and lockdown are ineffective in mitigating the spread of Covid-19. However, Hundreds of studies These have been shown Preventive measures In fact, reduce the spread of respiratory infections, such as COVID-19.
In the months since Trump secured his role as U.S. president, many government websites have been edited to reflect his administration’s agenda. With the help of Elon Musk Dogethe government attempts to remove hundreds of words related to diversity from government documents. this include Words such as “black”, “disability”, “diversity”, “gender”, “racism”, “women”, etc. The government also canceled scientifically proven mentions Climate change From the environmental website.
