There are a lot of CDC “managers, i.e. decision makers” there who are not medically trained and not even biologically trained! It has been allowed to evolve into a paper shuffling enterprise.
The official name of the CDC should be changed to the Deep State CDC...
And of course, remember that prior to this disaster, the CDC was involved in such PC things, outside of real epidemiology, as studies of gun violence when allowed. Maybe they still are.
So if their conflation of diagnostic and antibody test counts is genuinely consequential, you have to remember that they drifted from just the epidemiological mission long ago.