During the Ebola crisis, the CDC led the way. During the current pandemic, it has been forced into the backseat
, 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.
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