California dramatically rolls back reopening processHow racial bias dogs US coronavirus response at every levelAlabama, Maine and Texas to vote in primaries todayUS carries out first federal execution for 17 yearsSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.50pm BST Four former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention penned an op-ed criticizing lawmakers for politicizing the health agency.The four former directors — Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan, David Satcher and Richard Besser — write in the Washington Post: 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. 2.27pm BST This is Joan Greve in Washington, taking over for Martin Belam.The latest challenge in the country’s coronavirus crisis centers on whether schools should reopen this fall, with the president and many of his advisers pushing for schools to resume in-person instruction. Continue reading…
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