, the head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention , appeared almost daily to brief the public about the Ebola virus, the last pandemic to hit the United States before the coronavirus. His agency formulated policy for dealing with Ebola, and also embodied it. Thetrained 6,500 people in America and 25,000 in West Africa to look after victims. The vaccine that finally treated the disease was tested in alaboratory.
What used to be America’s most prestigious public-health body has been relegated to one voice among many in the clamour of the White House. The result is to squander expertise, compound confusion about who, if anyone, is in charge of the federal response to the virus and make the reopening of the country riskier than it need be.
The leadership conundrum, depicting, self-styled autocracy, demagogism, distrust of others and other dictatorial tendencies.
Nothing wrong with the backseat - if the driver knows the way. Now, thats another issue...
Maybe because they messed up so many times at the beginning of the Pandemic.
because they are no longer medical pioneers and are now a political cult
The CDC has lost a lot of its global cachet. It has faced a thousand cuts at the hands of the Trump administration. Even if the tides were to be turned in the next few years, the CDC may not be a powerful tool should another pandemic follows this one.
Nonsense, The Economist! U are smearing the White House., Forbes ,FoxNews ,realDonaldTrump .DailyCaller ,BreitbartNews ,RedState ,USATODAY ,dcexaminer
Economist to CDC to handcuffs = non sequitur creative cathartic full emote telenovela soap opera nitpicking writing to put the blame on realDonaldTrump 🧐Not even the collective of hospitals, clinics, research orgs on Earth can dictate how economies & markets thrive. Yet weRhere
No, It is China's fault, as China lied and China sabotaged the excellent public-health system of the Great America!
They dropped the ball hardcore. The CDC's mantra of track and contain may work for slow spreading novel viruses, but they were blindsided with a rapidly evolving scenario that thrived on free trade globalism. Bureaucracy: Not even once.
They have made a few very costly mistakes
joshtpm How has America become so cowardly that it has allowed a demented sociopathic buffoon to destroy it without any meaningful response at all ?
Not true! They have instructed doctors to report every death as a covid death! Corruption!
Lies
normanswan The CDC is completely corrupt and the Economist is a Rothschild tool
Thanks to Trump.
joshtpm This is what happens when there are no grownups in the room.
joshtpm The CDC used to be a trusted agency. The place for information. Now they can't get their numbers right. This country is going backward. Could it be funding cuts? Getting rid of the 'deep state' employees?
Trump must be stopped. He is not just America's problem. Why is the world letting him get away with this?
It’s was the CDC who botched the first set of tests. Can’t have it both ways. Despite mistakes we are better off than Europe.
Total bull. Just admonishing us for having paid more than our fair share, year after year. Other nations need to step up to the plate, And China is not a developing country.
It pains me to see this institution be told what to do by this man. It pains me even more to see the ppl who are more inclined to believe this fool over the educated + trained scientists who have been doing this work for years. I never thought I'd see this happen in the US.
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