'So, when you have political leaders and public health leaders coming at this with very different messaging, [and] when you don't see the political leadership supporting public health science, you lose trust.'
The CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Director Nancy Messonier hadduring a press briefing days earlier, on Feb. 25, that"disruptions to everyday life may be severe" from closures.
The former directors also said the U.S. needs to take a more proactive stance in preventing the next pandemic. Gerberding recently co-chaired a report titled"Ending the Cycle of Crisis and Complacency in U.S. Global Health Security." "We have to be proactive," said Frieden."We have to build in peacetime so that we're more prepared when we're fighting a war against a virus or other microbe."Frieden said that even when a vaccine is approved,"COVID will still be there." He said a vaccine is only one part of the response.
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