they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change, i guess, the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in, in time, even though they weren t. dun, dun, da! that is a dramatic claim. that would be an illegal thing to do, right? so, what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning conversation that involved his supervisor? well, he went to a right-wing activist group, and they drew up an affidavit, a statement that he then signed, swearing that what i just described is what he witnessed, signed his name to the bottom of it, and then this right-wing activist group publicly released this sworn affidavit as evidence of massive voter fraud. this is, like, the sworn affidavit thing, this is one of the weird things you kept hearing about from trump supporters and the trump cam
and you can access it on the cdc s covid tracker. for more on this we re joined by admiral brett giroir, secretary for health in the department of health and human services. he also led the trump administration s covid testing efforts. admiral, the cdc started to develop this wastewater surveillance system at the end of the trump administration. so explain how this works and the significance of these results from testing wastewater? well, thank you for having me on. this is really an important moment. as early as may or june of 2020, we had very early suggestive evidence that not only could you detect covid in wastewater, in sewage, but it predicted and preceded by 4 to 6 days a rise of cases in emergency rooms and hospitals in the community. so as you said, we did start in the trump administration. i convened the first federal working group in july. i started the national surveillance system at cdc in september and funded it for $50 million in november of that year. so it s great to