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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of August 15

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This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!

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    kfwyre
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    Walensky, citing botched pandemic response, calls for C.D.C. reorganization (New York Times)

    Walensky, citing botched pandemic response, calls for C.D.C. reorganization (New York Times)

    In a meeting with senior staff, Dr. Walensky outlined in broad terms a plan to reorganize the agency’s structure to prioritize public health needs and efforts to curb continuing outbreaks, and to put less emphasis on publication of scientific papers about rare diseases.

    The steps announced on Wednesday grew out of an external review Dr. Walensky had ordered in April, after months of scathing criticism of the C.D.C.’s response to the pandemic. Its public messages on masking and other mitigation measures were sometimes so confusing or abruptly modified that they seemed more like internal drafts than carefully considered proclamations.

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    1. eladnarra
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      Kinda funny - on disability Twitter, the CDC "reorganization" that I've seen quite a few people calling for is Walensky's resignation (... or firing). She was in charge when masking rules changed...

      Kinda funny - on disability Twitter, the CDC "reorganization" that I've seen quite a few people calling for is Walensky's resignation (... or firing).

      She was in charge when masking rules changed abruptly, when breakthrough infections were dismissed by all in charge, and when isolation for infected folks was decreased to just 5 days.

      Also, while I agree the focus for research should be actionable data rather than publishing papers, the dismissal of research on "rare illnesses" concerns me. Today's rare illness is tomorrow's epidemic.

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