How the CDC Must Change (with Director Rochelle Walensky)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky made a bold move earlier this month when she publicly acknowledged the major mistakes her agency made during the pandemic and announced major changes on their way. Andy asks Rochelle to spell out some of those mistakes, from flip-flopping mask guidance to low staffing levels in a time of crisis, and detail the changes underway to turn the CDC into a more nimble and transparent organization for the next major public health emergency.

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Read more about Rochelle’s statement to her staff on August 17: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/us/politics/cdc-rochelle-walensky-covid.html
Read the CDC’s guidance on monkeypox, which Rochelle points to as an example of plain language the agency plans to use more often: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html
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1:17.0	It's August 31st coming up on Labor Day. I've got Dr. Rochelle Wolensky, the head of the CDC on the show today.
1:27.0	She has given us the opportunity to go deep with her on what she saw at the CDC that caused her to come out and make the statement she did that there is something broken about the CDC and things need to change.
1:41.0	I wanted to get into that with her and understand what led her to that point, what she sees and what needs to change.
1:48.0	People are generally speaking by and large or they can't agree on anything they can agree that they're frustrated with the CDC.
1:58.0	She added her name to that list but I think it a different way in a way that I think it's hard because of the acknowledges that you might have wished she'd done things differently.
2:08.0	It allows people to point fingers at you. I thought it was pretty interesting.
2:13.0	I'll ask her about all this and also ask her what we need to do.
2:18.0	How do we need to perform? How do we need to get better?
2:22.0	She gives examples that I try to push towards that are things we all experience during the course of the pandemic and we're frustrated.
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