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| Subject: Time to Kick the CDC Out of Washington Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:07 pm | |
| Although the CDC was included on the White House COVID Response Team to bolster the scientific credibility, it ended up being at the expense of its own.
CDC and its director, Rochelle Walensky, MD, need to reclaim their independence and return to Atlanta. Let the White House continue to tout its pandemic accomplishments, and return the COVID briefings to where they started, conducted by career scientists at CDC headquarters.
The agency's presence in Washington has hindered, not helped, its reputation. Rather than effectively and expertly managing the crisis, the White House COVID Response Team's uneasy marriage of politics and public health has instead fueled distrust of public health guidelines. And this unbalanced partnership has tainted the formerly apolitical health agency.
Leaving the White House COVID Response Team would disentangle the CDC from this politically charged arrangement, and empower it to manage this public health crisis as they've managed every prior public health crisis, from 2009's H1N1 swine flu pandemic to 2014's Ebola outbreak.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it looked like the CDC would once again be leading the country through another public health crisis, with regular briefings on the situation. However, these were discontinued after CDC's former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Nancy Messonnier, MD, told reporters at a press briefing on Feb. 25, 2020 that "disruption to everyday life may be severe" from this "novel coronavirus" in the U.S.
.https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/fromtheeditors/97093 |
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