CDC Chief Brings the Coronavirus Warning Trump Didn’t Want to Hear
The day’s most consequential Trump-world problem was not a tweet or a gaffe, but a public health warning that undercut the administration’s hopeful framing of the coronavirus outbreak. CDC Director Robert Redfield said the virus was likely to remain a problem beyond the season and beyond the year, signaling that this was not the kind of neat, contained scare the White House was trying to project. That mattered because Trump had spent much of February insisting the situation was under control. When the nation’s top disease official starts talking past the president’s soothing script, the distance between public relations and public health bec…
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CDC Chief Brings the Coronavirus Warning Trump Didn’t Want to Hear
The day’s most consequential Trump-world problem was not a tweet or a gaffe, but a public health warning that undercut the administration’s hopeful framing of the coronavirus outbreak. CDC Director Robert Redfield said the virus was likely to remain a problem beyond the season and beyond the year, signaling that this was not the kind of neat, contained scare the White House was trying to project. That mattered because Trump had spent much of February insisting the situation was under control. W…
The day’s most consequential Trump-world problem was not a tweet or a gaffe, but a public health warning that undercut the administration’s hopeful framing of the coronavirus outbreak. CDC Director Robert Redfield said the virus was likely to remain a problem beyond the season and beyond the year, signaling that this was not the kind of neat, contained scare the White House was trying to project. That mattered becau…
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