‘Like a Hand Grasping’: Trump Appointees Describe the Crushing of the C.D.C.

“What’s not legitimate is to overrule science,” he said. Often, Mr. McGowan and Ms. Campbell mediated between Dr. Redfield and agency scientists when the White House’s requests and dictates would arrive: edits from Mr. Vought and Kellyanne Conway, the former White House adviser, on choirs and communion in faith communities, or suggestions from Ivanka Trump,…

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Fitness 2020: The Year in Exercise Science

More surprising, the pandemic seems to have nudged some people to start moving more, additional research found. An online survey of runners and other athletes in Junereported that most of these already active people said they were training more frequently now. A separate British study, however, produced more-nuanced results. Using objective data from an activity-tracking…

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