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The CDC Lost Control Of The Coronavirus Pandemic. Then The Agency Disappeared.
The worlds premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.
By Dan Vergano and Zahra Hirji
Posted on June 24, 2020, at 4:57 p.m. ET
On January 17, the worlds most trusted public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced it was screening travelers from Wuhan, China, because of a new infectious respiratory illness striking that city.
It was the CDCs first public briefing on the outbreak, coming as China reported 45 cases of the illness and two deaths linked to a seafood and meat market in Wuhan. Chinese health officials had not yet confirmed that the new illness was transmitted from person to person. But there was reason to believe that it might be: four days earlier, officials in Thailand confirmed their first case, a traveler from Wuhan who had not visited the seafood market.
Based on the information that CDC has today, we believe the current risk from this virus to the general public is low, said Nancy Messonnier, the CDCs director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Messonnier, 54, was a veteran of the CDCs renowned Epidemiological Intelligence Service, where she had risen through the ranks during the national responses to the anthrax attacks and the previous decades swine flu pandemic to eventually head the agencys vaccines center.
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Then, when the containment strategy's failure became undeniable, just one day before the WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic the CDC disappeared from public view.
When the outbreak started, we had an aggressive tracing program, but unfortunately, as the cases rose, it went beyond the capacity, CDC Director Robert Redfield later testified to Congress.
We lost the containment edge.
Much more at the link.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/danvergano/cdc-coronavirus-containment-redfield?bftwnews=&utm_term=4ldqpgc&__twitter_impression=true
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erronis
(15,379 posts)That someone is the (r)epuglicons and trump and his cohorts.
If there is an eye-for-an-eye then most of the (r)epuglicons and all of the trumps will pay.
littlemissmartypants
(22,839 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)problems.
Our government failed us, primarily because of leadership.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)...........Had NOTHING TO DO WITH the MORAN in the WH.