I’m a bit confused. The CDC is an agency in the federal government. What I think I am reading between the lines from this story is that there is a great deal of political maneuvering and posturing between various branches and agencies. Turf war, if you will. The White House wants direct access to the data. And there is good reason for that since these agencies do fall under the Executive, they need the data to give proper instructions to the agencies.
It’s sickening that we have all these agencies that are funded to the tens of billions every year and they weren’t prepared for the inevitable black swan of a pandemic - even after swine flu, bird flu, sars, etc. We’re not talking Spanish flu this is all recent memory stuff. Being prepared for this is their fargin’ mission! But they never replenished their inventories of supplies!
Then, you have them battling against HCQ which clearly does work well at least when given to people early after diagnosis or onset of first symptoms. Waiting until people are in the ICU to treat covid is like waiting for cancer to metastasize before treating it. I can’t believe all the things that are going on and really only one man working overtime to keep it all from falling apart. Governor Cuomo was yelling for 40,000 ventilators... 80% of people on ventilators for covid die. Where’s the science? You could argue it does more harm than good with that statistic.
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