The official who oversaw epidemic preparedness for the National Security Council under President Obama said the absence of public guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic leaves her “frankly scared” — and that eliminating her position weakened the American response to the coronavirus when it emerged 18 months later.
The administration reportedly watered down CDC guidelines for reopening, blocking the release of a detailed plan agency officials favored. In recent days, anonymous CDC officials have told CNN they were prepared to issue a global travel alert on March 5, after noticing a number of new cases in Europe, but for unexplained reasons the alert didn’t go out until nearly a week later. A CDC spokesman did not respond to an email seeking comment.
Cameron, who is now the vice president for global biological policy and programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit organization focused on reducing biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear weapons threats, said the NSC pandemic office would have been able to identify “points of failure” and likely supply chain problems before the disease began spreading in the U.S.
While early vaccine trials are showing positive results in monkeys, she said, it may be a long time before a vaccine is ready. In recent weeks, baseless conspiracy theories about how the coronavirus developed and spread as well as about dangers posed by a vaccine have gone viral on online.
I posted this since i first heard the lies of the white house briefing with the cdc doctor who lied lied lied. My FB posts tell the entire truth. It is scary. We have no hope to contain nor gain immunity to it. Reinfection will be infinite rolling dice between zero signs to death
Thousand die annually from the flu and yet many never get flu shots. I truly believe there has been gross overreaction to Covid
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