In CBS News' Monday morning editorial meeting, Weiss reportedly praised the story written by Washington, D.C.-based producer Zak Hudak and directed that its headline be reworked - which has led the intervention to be criticized as a political dog whistle in this respect, using a thin premise to set El-Sayed's name next to the phrase  9/11 attacks,  making an implication by association.



In the tweets in question, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on September 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll while advocating for a response as robust as the post-9/11 mobilization. In the second tweet, El-Sayed wrote that because more U.S. citizens had died from COVID than in the September 11 attacks, he hoped  that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health   against poverty … like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them. 

According to inside sources who spoke with the newsletter Status, Weiss  pe

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