Coronavirus survey in Minnesota cancelled by CDC after workers faced harassment, racism

"Teams that included people of color were reporting more incidents" in which they faced verbal abuse and intimidation while conducting the survey, a state official said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled federal coronavirus surveyors out of Minnesota this week after they experienced verbal abuse, intimidation and racism, according to the state's Department of Health.

Huff recalled a specific incident on Sept. 15 in Eitzen, a town of 250 people along the Iowa border, when one survey team"was surrounded by three men who refused to accept their identification as public health workers. One of the men was armed, and the workers felt that the intention of the men was to intimidate them. Racial epithets were used by the men."

"This situation was handled professionally, courteously, and unbiased with no racial slurs, threats or inappropriate comments made," said Adamson."The City of Eitzen in no way supports racism or violence."he is not investigating the incident as no complaints were filed.According to Huff, there were several other instances in which residents yelled at the public health workers and threatened to call the police.

Freedom is a cherished part of our country & thanks to CHINA we’ve experienced loosing it for awhile. Now we’re taking it back...freedom of choice & free-will 🇺🇸🇺🇸

And it’s BS. Take this off auto-tweet, NBC.

Minnesota nice.

How the president turned a pandemic into a partisan issue is appalling! We are never going to get out of this with his lack of leadership. So much damage has already been done. So many people have died. People are still refusing to wear masks. It is a sad state of affairs. VOTE!

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So Trump supporters then?

TitaniaMcGrath now coronavirus surveyors are racist

3000+ Deaths A Day PROJECT END OF THIS YEAR If NOT CHANGING COURSE...! WEAR A MASK 😷!Patriots Claimed that They’re Willing To DIE FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG 🇺🇸 But Won’t WEAR A MASK TO PROTECT YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS...!? Pure HYPOCRISY From realDonaldTrump SUPPORTERS Again... WTF

The enemy is no longer JUST 'the virus'. The enemy is a twin force of politicians AND THE MEDIA who have spread panic about the virus unnecessarily. People know it and they are peeved. The racism and threats are inexcusable. But you can all deal with our anger.

I never thought i would be reading a similar story in our Country. Trumps reaction has given permission for people to disregard the health of themselves and those around them. Awful.

Jail the protesters for life.

RubyGonzales2 Rejecting the dystopian government oversight? Nice! There’s hope for America!

You mean, they succumbed to threats & intimidation & surrendered, instead if doing their jobs? We seem to have a quite serious problem with the integrity & reliablity of our governmental 'protectors'

Ha 😂

They're lucky that's all they received...

muh waaaaaayzizm

Trumpers are so full of rage they take out their anger at the pandemic on those working to end it. So disturbing.

“The CDC...with the Minnesota Department of Health since Sept. 14 to conduct a voluntary door-to-door survey across 180 neighborhoods to better understand how the virus was spreading, particularly among people with no known symptoms.”

TrumpsAmerica

CDC are not only CORRUPT, they appear to have joined trump in TARGET KILLING.

Unbelievable

Watch 'Spanish flu: what humanity ignored from the biggest pandemic in modern history' on YouTube

Typical libs. Taunting and threatening the CDC because they threatened the fear culture that had been indoctrinated there...unless you rioted then fear disappeared.

Socialist democracy is the forefront of communism and the democratic party is leading the heard into a political agenda that will literally take away all of the freedoms of America and turn our nation into a totalitarian regime!

America is regressing by the minute.

We are in a sad state of race relations. This microcosm represents where we are as a country.

🔶I tried kindly to inform a MAGA about the results of my 5 yr. research/study of Trump.( a 1,000 hrs.+). After my 4 consecutive Tweets of criminal activity done by Trump. This man said he thought I had gained my info from Facebook!😩😂 NO! THEY DO! DUMB!

Good I am happy to see our citizens standing up for themselves. 👏👏👏👏

We have lost so many public health workers and experts because of ignorant and abusive people since this all started. That's certainly not a winning recipe.

The CDC....

Can't spell 'hatred' without 'red hat'.

No one wants goons going to their homes unannounced. Well, except maybe in NorthKorea, but they don't really have a choice, do they?

Nope. It’s BS.

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