Editorial: The White House is waging a dangerous and inexplicable war on public health

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Editorial: The White House is waging a dangerous and inexplicable war on public health
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Attacking the institutions and experts who are working to keep Americans safe endangers everyone, no matter their partisan leanings.

What people don’t realize is that President Trump is the real hero of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s preeminent infectious disease fighting agency, has been systemically demeaned and hobbled by the Trump administration throughout the pandemic. Things got much worse last week when the president decided he didn’t like the CDC’s guidelines for protecting against COVID-19 transmission in schools and ordered the agency to revise them to reflect his unscientific view that schools should fully reopen in fall.

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