The White House Kept Squeezing the CDC’s Pandemic Guidance Into a Political Shape
By May 11, the Trump administration’s long-running war with its own public-health experts was still biting it. The White House had already sidelined or softened CDC guidance on reopening and other COVID precautions, and that interference was starting to look less like normal policy tension and more like an effort to keep the politics cleaner than the science. The result was a federal response that kept blurting one thing in public while internally sanding off the sharper edges.
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The White House Kept Squeezing the CDC’s Pandemic Guidance Into a Political Shape
By May 11, the Trump administration’s long-running war with its own public-health experts was still biting it. The White House had already sidelined or softened CDC guidance on reopening and other COVID precautions, and that interference was starting to look less like normal policy tension and more like an effort to keep the politics cleaner than the science. The result was a federal response that kept blurting one thing in public while internally sanding off the sharper edges.
By May 11, the Trump administration’s long-running war with its own public-health experts was still biting it. The White House had already sidelined or softened CDC guidance on reopening and other COVID precautions, and that interference was starting to look less like normal policy tension and more like an effort to keep the politics cleaner than the science. The result was a federal response that kept blurting one …
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