The agency needs an overhaul, starting with the director who provided little direction for the last year, writes ZacharyFaria.
A CBS poll on COVID-19 found that 43% of independents think the CDC made the last two years worse, while 39% think it made things better. Republicans gave the CDC the thumbs down 61% compared to 24% who thought they did OK, while Democrats approved of the CDC’s handling of the pandemic 70% compared to 16% who did not.
Contradicting herself and the administration was a staple of Walensky’s 14 months at the helm. She asserted in February 2021, just one month into the job, that schools could safely reopen regardless of vaccinations and that the data “does not suggest teachers need to be vaccinated.” That should have been fantastic news, and it was clearly data-driven given how low-risk children are from COVID-19.
Schools exposed the worst of the CDC over the last few years. The CDC allowed teachers unions to write the rules for reopening and masking in schools, completely ignoring the data that showed children were not at serious risk from COVID-19. In February, Walensky still wanted people masked “essentially everywhere in the country in public indoor settings,” and the CDC still wants all children to be masked in schools.
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