CDC is not a monolith. In fact it is wracked with internal division and “office politics”, and disorganization. Inability to get rid of bad employees is a huge albatross, also.
So... CDC is possibly the worst agency in the gov’t, taken as a whole, but that said, pieces of it are halfway competent if time and efficiency are not part of the qualification. It’s data collection falls in that latter category. OTOH, it’s education / mitigation campaign on COVID via US media is possibly the most incompetent such effort I have ever witnessed.
Dear sir, given your view that the CDC is “wracked with internal division” and "office politics” and “disorganization,” as well as being “possibly the worst agency in the gov’t,” your assertion that its data collection is “halfway competent” is damning with faint praise.
Nonetheless, my point is that the worldometer data and visualization — not the CDC per se — suggest that the worldwide “pandemic” is of far less significance medically than the media hysteria and authoritarian political responses to it warranted.
As a follow on to that worldwide "official" data from "official" sources, the comparison the the US data more than suggests that the US' response has been pathetic, if its data is correct.
How pathetic? Over three and a half times more deadly and inept that the world's average response, which includes ALL the third world.
The CDC, NIH and FDA have led that demonstrably pathetic response, with Fauci and Collins and Walensky at the helm.
To assert that its "data collection falls in that latter category," that is, "halfway competent" is fuel for skepticism.
That "halfway competent" but "worst agency in the gov’t" has bred an "over three and a half times more deadly" and inept medical response than any other in the world.
Worst in the world.