> The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information an

> The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials. There's the first para of the article which contradicts most of the arguments you're trying to make. This is according to officials dealing with this problem today.