The CDC Just Issued a Medical—and Political—Warning

The CDC director just issued a medical warning, but it's also a political one. If you have trouble reading this message, [view it in a browser](. [The Administration* Is Going to War With the Government's Own Experts]( Dr. William Redfield, director of the Centers For Disease Control, stopped in at a webinar—one side effect of this pandemic is that it’s doing terrible things to the language—sponsored by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Redfield initiated a truth-quake that likely shook things up all the way back to Camp Runamuck in D.C. He said, "I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be probably one of the most difficult times that we've experienced in American public health." From a purely medical standpoint, Redfield was saying that things are so far gone in this country that the pandemic will still be raging when it collides with the cold and flu season. 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Lauren Kranc spoke to the network of teens running Instagram's new, impossible-to-hate trend and asked an important question: Why?[Read More]( [The Noah Archive Sale Is Here to Revitalize Your Wardrobe (and Save Your Wallet)]( We’ve (finally!) got some good news: Noah—and its particular brand of post-prep, skater-inflected style—is here to save you from the doom and gloom of spending yet another glorious summer day indoors. The beloved NYC-based label is currently hosting a hefty online archive sale, and if you haven't already saved down its homepage to your bookmarks bar I don't what you're waiting for, guy. A sign from god? Any time Noah decides to slash its prices even slightly, all product involved tends to sell out, and fast, so in a way, it's a modern miracle there's anything left at all. 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