Anyone paying attention knows the CDC is but a scarred and wrinkly appendage of the Democrat Party and Teachers Unions, thus it is not to be viewed as a reliable source for the truth.
Sick people.
Correct. I came to a similar conclusion in the Spring of 2020 after a brief study.
See here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3832892/posts?page=47#47
It's sad. I used to be a Federal Contractor for them. They weren't bad back then.
It's all about the leadership. Back when Tom Frieden, for example, was the Director of the CDC, they famously put out a firearms-use-and-safety study that Obama illegally ordered, whose facts directly refuted the anti-gunners' party lines. It showed that there was a societal net-benefit to firearms ownership. Back then, they stuck to the science and the facts.
But since then, the CDC has become, as you say, a useless appendage of the Deep State and liberal Democrats.
I met a lot of full-time-employees of the CDC who were staunch conservatives... I'm sure now they keep their heads down.