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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of August 15
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!
Walensky, citing botched pandemic response, calls for C.D.C. reorganization (New York Times)
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.