How Trump officials pressured the CDC to play down the risk of reopening schools to fit the president’s reelection agenda

Marc Short, seen here at a rally at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 10, 2019, dispatched junior members of the vice president’s staff to circumvent the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in search of data he thought might better support the White House’s position on the coronavirus. (Doug Mills / The New York Times/Doug Mills/The New York Times)