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CDC, the top U.S. public health agency, is sidelined during coronavirus pandemic
Washington Post ^ | March 19, 2020 | Lena H. Sun

Posted on 03/22/2020 3:20:37 PM PDT by rintintin

As the United States enters a critical phase in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s leading public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appears to be on the sidelines, with its messages increasingly disrupted or overtaken by the White House. Neither CDC Director Robert Redfield nor Anne Schuchat — the principal deputy director who has played key roles in the agency’s emergency responses stretching back two decades, including the 2009 influenza pandemic — have appeared on the podium during White House briefings by the coronavirus task force for more than a week.

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1 posted on 03/22/2020 3:20:37 PM PDT by rintintin
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Too busy tracking gun statistics.


2 posted on 03/22/2020 3:21:20 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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Narrative manufacturing


3 posted on 03/22/2020 3:21:50 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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Maybe they are too busy to appear on TV.


4 posted on 03/22/2020 3:21:58 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Dr Fauxi has been too slow on getting known cures out


5 posted on 03/22/2020 3:22:39 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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Boo friggin hoo


6 posted on 03/22/2020 3:22:41 PM PDT by Spruce
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the CDC is closed and its main facility blown up. i saw it myself on TWD...


7 posted on 03/22/2020 3:25:40 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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Maybe the CDC shouldn’t have burned their bridge to the Presidential Palace.


8 posted on 03/22/2020 3:26:01 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

He’s NIH


9 posted on 03/22/2020 3:27:02 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: rintintin

Imagine these kinds of headlines in 1942 during WW2.

Beijing Roses and Lord Haw Haws, the lot.


10 posted on 03/22/2020 3:27:34 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Yeah, well there’s a reason for that - the CDC decided that disease was no longer as sexy or as interesting as researching gun violence and other topics having nothing to do with disease. They discredited themselves by turning themselves into another politicized bureaucracy pushing a political agenda.


11 posted on 03/22/2020 3:28:10 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Exactly. Imagine Lord Haw Haw asking Churchill questions during a presser during the War.


12 posted on 03/22/2020 3:28:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The Washington Post has no limit to how far they will go to disrupt our nation's response to this epidemic. They don't seem like an essential business, why aren't they shut down?

Maybe not every CDC employee needs to be at the press conferences.

13 posted on 03/22/2020 3:29:24 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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CDPIAPS is too busy trying to prevent helpful medicine from getting into the hands of the “unwashed masses” and undermining the POTUS.


14 posted on 03/22/2020 3:29:26 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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I’m guessing because it was a bloated bureaucratic mess.


15 posted on 03/22/2020 3:29:36 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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We’re really seeing the depth and breadth of the reach of guvment.


16 posted on 03/22/2020 3:31:21 PM PDT by ealgeone
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bezospost


17 posted on 03/22/2020 3:31:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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I guess the Democrats aren’t making enough pocket change from the upcoming house bill and want to funnel money through CDC.they must have their corruption network in place just waiting for this to happen.


18 posted on 03/22/2020 3:31:51 PM PDT by cnsmom
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the CDC didn’t play a role in the Oct 2019 “test run” of such a global quarantine effort?

Event 201 Pandemic Exercise: Highlights Reel
nov 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoLw-Q8X174


19 posted on 03/22/2020 3:36:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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isn’t that redfield behind the podium now?

otoh, as of now (just prior to q and a session) he has not been allowed to speak...


20 posted on 03/22/2020 3:37:50 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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