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WASHINGTON — Juliette Hartquit her job last summer as anoceanographer for the UnitedStates Geological Survey, whereshe used climate models to helpcoastal communities plan for ris-ing seas. She was demoralized af-ter four years of the Trump admin-istration, she said, in which politi-cal appointees pressured her todelete or downplay mentions ofclimate change.

“It’s easy and quick to leavegovernment, not so quick for gov-ernment to regain the talent,” saidDr. Hart, whose job remains va-cant.

President Donald J. Trump’sbattle against climate science —his appointees undermined fed-eral studies, fired scientists anddrove many experts to quit or re-

tire — continues to reverberatesix months into the Biden admin-istration. From the AgricultureDepartment to the Pentagon tothe National Park Service, hun-dreds of jobs in climate and envi-ronmental science across the fed-eral government remain vacant.

Scientists and climate policyexperts who quit have not re-turned. Recruitment is suffering,according to federal employees,as government science jobs are nolonger viewed as insulated frompolitics. And money from Con-gress to replenish the ranks couldbe years away.

The result is that President Bi-den’s ambitious plans to confrontclimate change are hampered by abrain drain.

“The attacks on science have amuch longer lifetime than just thelifetime of the Trump administra-tion,” said John Holdren, profes-

Biden’s Climate Plans HobbledAfter an Exodus Under Trump

This article is by Coral Davenport,Lisa Friedman and ChristopherFlavelle.

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Deaths from Covid-19 weresurging across Africa in Junewhen 100,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived inChad. The delivery seemed proofthat the United Nations-backedprogram to immunize the worldcould get the most desirable vac-cines to the least developed na-tions. Yet five weeks later, Chad’shealth minister said, 94,000 dosesremained unused.

Nearby in Benin, only 267 shotswere being given each day, a paceso slow that 110,000 of the pro-gram’s AstraZeneca doses ex-

pired. Across Africa, confidentialdocuments from July indicated,the program was monitoring atleast nine countries where it saiddoses intended for the poor wereat risk of spoiling this summer.

The vaccine pileup illustratesone of the most serious but largelyunrecognized problems facing theimmunization program as it triesto recover from months of mis-steps and disappointments: diffi-culty getting doses from airporttarmacs into people’s arms.

Known as Covax, the programwas supposed to be a global pow-erhouse, a multibillion-dollar alli-ance of international health bod-ies and nonprofits that would en-sure through sheer buying powerthat poor countries received vac-cines as quickly as the rich.

Instead, Covax has struggled toacquire doses: It stands half a bil-lion short of its goal. Poor coun-tries are dangerously unprotectedas the Delta variant runs ramp-ant, just the scenario that Covax

SHORT ON DOSES,AND STRUGGLINGTO DELIVER THEM

CHALLENGES FOR COVAX

Money, Bureaucracy andLogistics Clip Global

Vaccination Plan

By BENJAMIN MUELLERand REBECCA ROBBINS

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A Covax shipment of Astra-Zeneca doses in Madagascar.

MAMYRAEL/A.F.P. — GETTY IMAGES

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Inearly July, crews showed updowntown for some long-delayedevictions. After years of protest,litigation and even violence, thestatues of two Confederate gener-als, Lee and Jackson, were finallycarted out of city parks, expelledby the city’s drive to right its past

wrongs.Now the really hard work

awaits.It has been four years since

white supremacists descended onCharlottesville, wreaking bloodyhavoc in the streets and killing ayoung woman. The horror of thatAugust weekend sent the city intoa deep study of its own racial pastand a debate over what to doabout its legacy. The catalog of lin-

gering artifacts of that bigotedhistory is daunting, beginningwith statues but quickly getting tothe basics of civic life like schoolsand neighborhoods.

In a city that prides itself on itsprogressivism, the push for jus-tice has, in general terms, enjoyedbroad support. That this push mayentail changes to people’s neigh-borhoods — streets of one- andtwo-story brick homes, lovelydogwoods and abundant BlackLives Matter signs — is anothermatter.

Fight Over Rezoning Bid Tests Charlottesville’s Progress on RaceBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSON City Removes Statues

but Balks at More

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LOS ANGELES — Ellie Zeiler,17, a TikTok creator with over 10million followers, received anemail in June from Village Mar-keting, an influencer marketingagency. It said it was reaching outon behalf of another party: theWhite House.

Would Ms. Zeiler, a high schoolsenior who usually posts shortfashion and lifestyle videos, bewilling, the agency wondered, toparticipate in a White House-backed campaign encouragingher audience to get vaccinatedagainst the coronavirus?

“There is a massive need togrow awareness within the 12-18age range,” Village Marketingwrote to Ms. Zeiler’s businessemail. “We’re moving fast andhave only a few available slots tofill, so please let us know ASAP.”

Ms. Zeiler quickly agreed, join-ing a broad, personality-drivencampaign to confront an increas-ingly urgent challenge in the fightagainst the pandemic: vaccinat-ing the youthful masses, who havethe lowest inoculation rates of anyeligible age group in the UnitedStates.

Fewer than half of all Ameri-cans age 18 to 39 are fully vacci-nated, compared with more thantwo-thirds of those over 50, ac-cording to the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention. Andabout 58 percent of those age 12through 17 have yet to receive ashot at all.

To reach these young people,the White House has enlisted aneclectic army of more than 50Twitch streamers, YouTubers,TikTokers and the 18-year-old popstar Olivia Rodrigo, all of themwith enormous online audiences.State and local governments havebegun similar campaigns, in somecases paying “local micro influ-encers” — those with 5,000 to100,000 followers — up to $1,000 amonth to promote Covid-19 vac-cines to their fans.

The efforts are in part a coun-terattack against a rising tide ofvaccine misinformation that hasflooded the internet, where anti-vaccine activists can be so vocifer-ous that some young creators saythey have chosen to remain silenton vaccines to avoid a politicizedbacklash.

“The anti-vaccine side of the in-ternet is still set on all this vaccinenews,” said Samir Mezrahi, theadministrator of several “memepages” such as Kale Salad, whichhas nearly 4 million followers onInstagram and posts viral videos

Officials EnlistStars of TikTokIn Vaccine War

Tapping Influencers toSteer Facts to Youth

By TAYLOR LORENZ

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ISADORA KOSOFSKY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A wave of Covid cases at an I.C.U. in Santa Monica, Calif., dashed the hopes of doctors who thought the worst was over. Page A14.‘When Will This Ever End?’

On a sweltering July afternoon,a homeless man named MelvinDouglas biked up to his sleepingspot beneath the High Line, the el-evated, art-filled New York parkoverlooking the Hudson River,and found that a city cleanup crewhad thrown away his possessions— again. The same thing had hap-pened the day before.

“Brand-new clothes, brand-newT-shirts, everything,” Mr. Doug-las, 54, said as he shook his head atthe bare sidewalk. “They took allmy stuff, bro. No regard at all.”

As the country’s most populouscity strives to lure back touristsand office workers, it has under-taken an aggressive campaign topush homeless people off thestreets of Manhattan.

City workers used to tear downone or two encampments a day.Now, they sometimes clear doz-ens. Since late May, teams that in-clude sanitation workers ingarbage trucks, police officersand outreach workers havecruised Manhattan around theclock, hitting the same spots overand over.

The sweeps are part of abroader effort by Mayor Bill deBlasio that includes transferringover 8,000 people from hotels,where they had been placed tostem the spread of the coronavi-rus, to barracks-style group shel-ters. The transfers are continuingdespite the recent surge in theDelta variant of the virus, thoughthe city told a judge it would delaythe moves Monday to addressconcerns that it was not adequate-ly considering people’s healthproblems and disabilities.

The city is also responding tomonths of complaints abouthomeless people blocking publicspaces, menacing passers-by and

New York PushTo Clear StreetsHits Homeless

By ANDY NEWMANand NICOLE HONG

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ACRE, Israel — Uri Jeremias, acelebrated Israeli chef, saw him-self as a benefactor. By bringingjobs, tourists and investment tothe mainly Arab heart of the coast-al town of Acre, he believed he wasseen as nurturing coexistence be-tween Jews and Arabs.

Until an Arab mob torched hisUri Buri restaurant in May and aJewish guest at his luxury hotelwas asphyxiated in the worst in-ter-community riots in decades.

“I was targeted as a Jew by rad-icalized thugs,” Mr. Jeremias, 76,said at his airy house in Nahariya,a few miles north of Acre. “Butmany more Arabs came to helpme put out the fires than came toburn my places down. We cannotallow a violent minority to win.”

Mr. Jeremias’s flowing FatherTime beard and piercing blue eyeshave become a feature of high-end

travel magazines, where he hasbeen portrayed as “cooking up co-existence” beside the glowing Ot-toman walls of Acre’s Old City. Hevows to restore the restaurantsoon. He wants to get his 62 em-ployees, half of them Arab, back towork, for the sake of “all the peo-ple of Acre and also the state of Is-rael.”

It won’t be easy. Blending di-verse people is tougher thanblending flavors.

The May riots, set off by provoc-ative police interventions at theAqsa Mosque and the outbreak ofthe 11-day Israel-Hamas war, toreaway a thin layer of civility to ex-

pose seething resentments be-tween Israel’s Jewish and Pales-tinian citizens. Across almost allof Israel’s seven officially “mixed”Arab-Jewish towns, gunfire, ar-son, stone-throwing and lynchingleft a trail of destruction. Arabmobs burned Jewish stores to theground. Rightist Jewish vigilanteschanted “Death to Arabs.” Fourpeople, two Jews and two Arabs,were killed and hundreds, mostlyArabs, were later arrested.

In Acre, a city whose Crusader,Ottoman, Arab and Jewish historyhas been one of uneasy mingling,a spark was enough to demon-strate that many Palestinians,who account for 30 percent of thetown’s population of 56,000, sawMr. Jeremias’s enterprise more ascreeping exclusion and oppres-sion than opportunity.

A journey across several mixedIsraeli towns and cities revealedthe extent of this mutual incom-

Riots Shattered Illusion of Coexistence in IsraelBy ROGER COHEN

In the mixed city of Acre, Israel, Palestinians account for 30 percent of the population of 56,000.DAN BALILTY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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In Arab-Jewish Towns,Resentment Festers

Over Inequality

The blaze in Oregon all but erased onecouple’s home, leaving little exceptmemories and a chimney. PAGE A12

NATIONAL A12-17

Bootleg Fire’s DevastationGestures by two American athletes,including Raven Saunders, above, maytest rules on penalties. PAGE D1

SPORTS D1-10

Protests on the Podium

Michelle Cottle PAGE A18

OPINION A18-19

A recovery mission off Vietnam’s coast,assisted by undersea robots, showedhow advances in technology have givennew reach to the Pentagon’s search forAmerican war dead. PAGE A6

Lost U.S. Aviator Is Found

In a meeting with New York Timesreporters, President Kais Saied vowedto preserve the freedom of speech andother rights. So far, the country is tak-ing him at his word. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-11

A Talk With Tunisia’s President

Suspicion and skepticism among law-makers have complicated deal-making,Carl Hulse writes. PAGE A13

Trust Gap on Capitol HillItaly’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs, from ElPaso and little known by his competi-tors, won the men’s 100 meters. PAGE D6

Who’s He? The Fastest Man.Frenchy Cannoli blended a true believ-er’s love of the drug with a connoisseur’snose for quality. He was 64. PAGE D11

OBITUARIES D11-12

Ardent Evangelist for Hashish

Social media is scrutinized for vaccinemisinformation, but local news outletsplay a role too. PAGE B1

How Misinformation Spreads

As workers return to the financial dis-trict, longstanding dress codes havebeen relaxed. Right now, almost any-thing goes. Even jeans. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

You Can Ditch the Power SuitAt Opus 40, a sprawling piece of land-scape art in upstate New York, thescenic vistas of its creator, Harvey Fite,are being challenged by a persistentfeud and a big chain-link fence. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

Fencing Off a Legacy

“I’ve become an actor, but I don’t wantto be seen,” says Vicky Krieps, who isstarring in “Old,” a thriller directedby M. Night Shyamalan. PAGE C1

Wary of the Spotlight

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