As a retired CDC employee and scientist I read the recent perspective in the Washington Post by 4 former directors of that public health agency.

It starts like this:

As America begins the formidable task of getting our kids back to school and all of us back to work safely amid a pandemic that is only getting worse, public health experts face two opponents: covid-19, but also political leaders and others attempting to undermine the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the debate last week around reopening schools more safely showed, these repeated efforts to subvert sound public health guidelines introduce chaos and uncertainty while unnecessarily putting lives at risk.

Read We ran the CDC. No president ever politicized its science the way Trump has. It is well worth your time.

If you want to learn how the administration is undermining and endangering public health this is as good a place as any to start.

It didn’t have to be the bad.

Cases in the U.S. (CDC data July 15, 2020)

TOTAL CASES
3,416,428
60,971 New Cases since yesterday

TOTAL DEATHS
135,991
773 New Deaths since yesterday