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Of course, you certainly don’t want a CDC that answers to every half-baked study out there — a CDC with 1,000 diet pill recommendations would be worse than useless. But you do want a relatively nimble CDC that reflects what’s going on in the real world, not the orthodoxy of months and years past - Andy Larsen
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Revamping the CDC Will Take More Than Just ‘Rejiggering the Org Chart’
Revamping the CDC would require more than simply reconfiguring the organizational chart, according to public health officials, but no one should totally dismiss everything the CDC did in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other outbreaks, nor the dedication of the many people who work at the agency.
“The ‘COVID bus’ kind of swerved from one side of the highway to the other, and we should not throw the CDC under the wheels of that bus. It’s not their fault that we kept getting new information,” said Rebecca Wurtz, MD, MPH...
“There are things that went wrong that are within the CDC’s control, and there are things that went wrong that are not in the CDC’s control. And…
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Poll Finds Public Health Has A Trust Problem
The mistrust is not really surprising. There have been plenty of missteps throughout in the past year, due to everything from political interference, to incomplete information, to confusing messaging.
The CDC Has a Credibility Problem
The agency has been on the front lines of the fight against malaria, Ebola, and many other highly contagious and deadly diseases across the globe. But the agency has taken a big hit since COVID-19 started in China and quickly spread when it reached the U.S.
In lieu of a COVID Commission, a new report exposes CDC failures
Unlike previous reports by The Commonwealth Fund and the National Academies of Science, which studiously avoided criticism of the CDC, Peters’ report offers lawyerly “findings of fact,” that points out that the CDC was not remotely prepared to manage an epidemic that its own experts said was inevitable.
Why America Doesn't Trust the CDC
If the CDC is curious as to why people aren't listening to its recommendations, it should consider how it bypassed experts to put the matter before a Kangaroo court of like-minded loyalists. The Biden administration should insist that we return to the standard process of putting all major vaccine decisions before a vote of the FDA's leading vaccine experts. The Biden administration promised to listen to the scientists. But the truth is, it only seems to listen to the ones who say what it wants to hear.
Revamping the CDC Will Take More Than Just ‘Rejiggering the Org Chart’
Almost from the beginning, the CDC made some missteps. The first COVID-19 diagnostic test could not be used because of design issues.
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