We need the real CDC back, and we need it now

[LiberalArkie]

As political leaders discuss relaxing social distancing restrictions and opening up the economy again, a majority of Americans are concerned about whether it is safe to do so. They have fundamental questions about how the nation is doing, what will happen after it opens up, whether we will be able to keep people safe, and could we have to shut down again.

As we struggle our way through this, an essential element is missing: strong, effective leadership from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the premier public health agency in the world.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the CDC has been inexplicably absent, and Americans are suffering and dying for it.

The CDC has long been the steady, trusted source for high-quality national data and evidence-based guidance. But not this time, when its voice is needed the most.

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https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/29/we-need-the-real-cdc-back-and-we-need-it-now/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. As an Atlantan with friends who work there, it is especially distressing. How have we gone

this far down? Oh. Right. Republicans.

[hlthe2b]

2. CDC has been silenced for more than three years now. Outside the political appointees, the morale

has never been worse. Those remaining who have the experience have been abused into silence.
It is devastating.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Remember how they were blocked from studying the impact of gunshot wounds? Because Jeebus and gunz

[hlthe2b]

5. Yes. I certainly do. But, even that pales in comparison to what is happening now.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Yep, no comparison. The RWers will not rest until it's hobbled and the USPS is killed and....

[lark]

3. The CDC, like anything good, has been taken over and destroyed by rw haters.

drumpfs' people are in charge and the mission is to increase drumpfs' personal $$ and cover up the true facts of his incompetence, not to protect the American people.

[SoonerPride]

7. We need every agency of government back in the hands of sane competent leadership

Republicans are pure unmitigated evil.