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The governance - tend website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines , testing , and discussion . Now , under President Trump ’s horizon , the pageredirects to a White House websiteespousing the unproved theory that COVID-19 originated in a Taiwanese research lab .
The hypothesis , which has been opposed by many virologist , was espousedin a reportby House Republicans last class that determine the pandemic began with a lab leak in China . House Democratsreleased a rebuttalat the metre , stating the investigation fail to find out COVID ’s genuine descent .
The covidtests.gov internet site , where people could previously tell free coronavirus tests , also airt to thisnew Thomas Nelson Page .
The White House ’s new internet site also include medical disinformation about the treatment of the computer virus , incorrectly claim that social distancing , mask authorisation , and lockdown are not effective at extenuate the spread of COVID-19 . However , hundreds of studieshave exhibit that thesepreventative measuresdo , in fact , reduce the transmission of respiratory contagion like COVID-19 .
In the month since Trump has reassumed his role as the U.S. president , numerous government web site have been edit to reflect the agenda of his administration . With the assistance of Elon Musk’sDOGE , the government has attempted to remove from governing documents C of words tie in to diverseness . Thisincludeswords like “ black-market , ” “ disability , ” “ variety , ” “ sexuality , ” “ racism , ” “ women , ” and more . The government has also remove reference of scientifically - provenclimate changefrom environmental websites .
