Nearly 350 public health organizations, advocacy groups and local health departments are urging HHS Secretary Alex Azar to play a more prominent role in shielding the CDC from political interference
In a statement, HHS spokesperson Michael Caputo said the CDC “has been at the forefront of this whole-of-America response to the pandemic since day one” and is represented on the White House task force by both Azar and CDC Director Robert Redfield.
. More than two dozen top state and local health officials have quit, resigned or retired during the pandemic, in some cases after being subjected to personal threats and slurs, or demonstrations outside their homes over public health restrictions. Those discussions are still in their early stages, and any resulting effort could take a variety of forms. Freeman said one large-scale idea under consideration is an awareness project that would rank as “one of the largest PR campaigns in recent history,” though she acknowledged it would require first finding the necessary funding.
But the agency came under fire early in the coronavirus pandemic over its development of faulty diagnostic tests and was further sidelined as the White House’s coronavirus task force commandeered control of the federal response.
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