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They Worked To Protect Public Health. Now They Want the Public’s Votes.

A handful of former public health officials are campaigning for top statewide offices across the country, testing whether their experience with covid and other hot-button health issues will appeal to voters in November. The officials, all Democrats, are running at a time when the Trump administration is reducing government funding for scientific research, restricting access to some vaccines, and making it more difficult for some Americans to obtain health insurance. Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 3.14 Action, a political action committee that recruits Democratic candidates with scien...