After Hours: CDC’s Post-Covid Crisis in Confidence

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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By nearly every account, the public has lost confidence in CDC amid mistakes, missteps, and misinformation. Prof. Lawrence Gostin discusses where the agency can go from here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:31.0	Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.
0:34.6	Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.
0:38.1	Today, America's post-COVID crisis of confidence in what was long considered the world's
0:43.8	premier public health agency, CDC.
0:49.1	The story I'm working on for this week's episode of Full Measure is so important in the
0:59.6	grand scheme of things.
1:00.6	It will air on Sunday, November 6th.
1:04.4	It examines the CDC's remarkable loss of credibility after about three years of COVID-related
1:10.8	miscommunications, missteps, misinformation.
1:15.2	This is serious.
1:16.5	A large segment of the public, according to some polls, says a majority no longer feels
1:21.5	as though they can rely on CDC for accurate, truthful, scientific and public health information.
1:28.1	This is the agency that gets untold billions each year to be reliable advocates for us,
1:34.4	to be on the cutting edge of the latest science, to protect us and keep us safe.
1:39.1	Yet by CDC's own admission, it did its own analysis, it utterly failed at its most important
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