On Thursday, former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade shared a USA Today article on Twitter, questioning the wisdom of the CDC’s decision to change its stance on the re-opening of schools after pressure from President Donald Trump.

“If the CDC changes its expert guidance on COVID at the order of the President, is it still expert guidance? Sounds more like authoritarian propaganda,” McQuade, currently a legal analyst for NBC News, tweeted.

Navratilova echoed the sentiment, likening the “propaganda coming out of the White House” to the modus operandi of communist governments.

“Exactly. I feel like I am back in a communist country with all this bulls**t propaganda coming out of the WH and now CDC,” the 18-time Grand Slam winner, who has first-hand experience of living in a communist country, wrote on Twitter.

Born in Prague, in the former Czechoslovakia, Navratilova was 12-years-old when the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries invaded the Czech capital in August 1968 to suppress mass protests against the country’s communist government, which had begun seven months earlier.

In 1975, after losing to Chris Evert in the U.S. Open semifinals, Navratilova defected from Czechoslovakia, requesting political asylum in New York City.

Navratilova became a permanent resident a month after requesting asylum, but the move saw her stripped of her Czechoslovak citizenship, which she reacquired in 2008, 27 years after becoming a U.S. citizen.

In the article shared by McQuade, Vice President Mike Pence confirmed the CDC was revising its guidance on re-opening schools after Trump had tweeted his disagreement with the body’s “very tough and expensive guidelines for opening schools” and threatened to revoke fundings from school that don’t open this fall.

“The president said today we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough,” Pence told reporters at a news conference at the U.S. Department of Education. “That’s the reason why, next week, CDC is going to be issuing a new set of tools, five different documents that will be giving even more clarity on the guidance going forward.

“And as we work with Congress on the next round of state support, we’re going to be looking for ways to give states a strong incentive and encouragement to get kids back to school.”

At the same press conference, CDC Director Robert Redfield reiterated the current guidelines were not “to be used as a rationale to keep schools closed” and were designed to ensure schools can open as safely as possible.

As states across the U.S. have re-opened, coronavirus cases have surged. Over 59,460 new cases were announced across the country on Thursday and the U.S. has broken daily-case records in five of the last nine days.

As of Friday morning almost 3.1 million cases of coronavirus had been reported in the U.S., by far the highest tally of any country in the world.

Of the over 554,900 deaths recorded worldwide so far, more than 133,200 have been in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the outbreak using combined data sources.

There have been over 12.2 million confirmed cases globally since the outbreak of coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, a city located in China’s central Hubei province, late last year.