Top COVID-19 news - June 17, 2020

Politicians out-shouting public health experts; anti-mask brigades getting bigger

Here are the top stories for Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

Anyone who has worked in public health likely is dismayed that the headlines in major media outlets portray a “debate” over whether the United States is in a “second wave” of COVID-19 infection. What matters is that the number of cases is going up, not down, in most of the country at the very time t…