[shas3]

The incompetence of CDC and FDA is staggering.

It is not hard to imagine an alternative reality where the CDC-FDA testing fiasco did not occur, there was some test-and-trace early in the epidemic, and the cost and extent of the shut-downs were lesser and far fewer deaths occurred.

It is a bit dismaying to say this: but CDC and FDA have a lot of blood on their hands.

[rabidrat]

Who installed the CDC leadership and gutted their budget? It's easy to foist the blame on some faceless TLA govt org without digging just one level deeper to figure out how the gross incompetence was able to manifest.

[shas3]

You'd be right, if CDC's Covid-19 response isn't a repeat of their initial incompetence during Ebola, SARS, etc. https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/04/11/the-covid-pand...

"To be fair, what’s on display here is a broader institutional malady. The US version of the WHO, the CDC, took a similar stance with another controversial topic—quarantines for health care workers returning from treating patients with Ebola. Four states—New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Illinois—instituted policies to quarantine anyone who had contact with someone infected with the Ebola virus while in west Africa, including medical personnel who cared for patients. No less than the Obama administration, backed by the CDC, attempted to squash these policies, arguing that this would serve as a disincentive for US health workers to travel to Africa to combat the disease at a time this help was sorely needed."