How did each side cover this story?

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Center: ABC News frames the story as a straightforward public-health update, emphasizing case counts, hospitalizations, geographic spread, and CDC guidance, without political context. Lean Left: Left-leaning outlets (Vox, Guardian, NBC, NYT) largely provide public-health service journalism on symptoms, prevention, and produce risk, but The Guardian and NYT explicitly connect the outbreak's growth and tracking difficulty to Trump administration funding cuts to health departments and foodborne illness surveillance programs, a political/structural framing absent from the other spectrums sampled. Lean Right: New York Post frames the story locally, focusing on a Long Island cluster of cases alongside an unrelated salmonella outbreak tied to a music festival, with less emphasis on national case totals or causes. Right: Breitbart frames the story briefly around the lettuce/salad greens link identified by Michigan officials, with minimal additional context on national spread, hospitalizations, or funding issues.

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