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Inside the fall of the CDC: How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus

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Tags: usa, cdc, epidemiology, coronaviruses.covid19, health.public, author.james bandler, author.patricia callahan, author.sebastian rotella, author.kirsten berg, source.propublica, long read
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc

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Inside the Fall of the CDC
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  1. kfwyre
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    This is a very long but very good read, and Dr. Cetron's "bankruptcy of trust" concept has far-reaching resonance well beyond just the CDC. I think we're reaching a point where trust everywhere...

    This is a very long but very good read, and Dr. Cetron's "bankruptcy of trust" concept has far-reaching resonance well beyond just the CDC. I think we're reaching a point where trust everywhere and in seemingly everything is at all-time lows.

    Also, so much has happened over the course of COVID that I legitimately forgot about this huge deal: the Trump administration privatized coronavirus data reporting and cut the CDC out. There's a lot in this article that's damning, but the following bit about the company who took over is particularly egregious (emphasis mine):

    In April, HHS hired TeleTracking Technologies Inc. to collect COVID data along with the CDC. But the Pittsburgh company had trouble getting accurate information, records and interviews show. A CDC analysis in May discovered that data about ventilator use was missing from 57% of hospitals that reported to TeleTracking, compared with 6% of hospitals reporting to the CDC system during the same week. Rather than acknowledge that data was missing, the company reported zeroes instead, according to the CDC analysis.

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