A top spokesman for the HHS objected to a number of news stories that detailed how the federal government is eliminating, by June 30, funding of 13 community based coronavirus testing sites in five states. Seven of the sites are in Texas.
Toward what was the end of the call, one reporter was called on to ask a question, but Caputo chimed in after the journalist failed to be heard.
"And yet you're spending an hour on the telephone call and we are taking people away from the fight against the coronavirus so that you can ... so that your information can be corrected!" Caputo said."I urge you, and I'm on the record with you, to call them back and ask them why are they working to undermine the public health system in the middle of a pandemic," Caputo said.Caputo kept up the heat after this article first was published, taking issue with its headline.
And in replying to Washington Post reporter Paige Cunningham's tweet that he had been "yelling" at another reporter during the call, Caputo wrote: "If I were yelling, you'd know it Paige. We kept the call going 20 extra minutes to help you see the folly of this planted story. Need more time?"
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