Opinion: CDC: remember who you are
The CDC must shake off its recent failures, steel itself for what is to come, and display the leadership and competence it possesses.
Public health wins are quiet — the child born healthy, the loved one still safe, the crisis averted, the economy strong. Public health losses, like the nation’s failure to develop an early and accessible diagnostic test for novel coronavirus, are loud.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, what has been the nation’s — and arguably the world’s — preeminent public health agency, must shake off its recent failures, steel itself for what is to come, and display the leadership and competence it possesses. We need the CDC to.
