What Happened to the CDC?

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Historically, the U.S. Centers for Disease control and Prevention has been the agency in charge of predicting, and containing outbreaks of disease. But as Covid 19 ravaged the country, the agency took a backseat to the White House. Michelle Fay Cortez and John Tozzi discuss how the agency has handled the pandemic response, its early missteps, and how its role is likely to change in the future.

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0:34.7	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 33 since coronavirus was declared a global
0:43.1	pandemic. Our main story today, historically, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
0:50.6	is the agency in charge of predicting and containing an outbreak.
0:56.0	But as COVID-19 ravages the country, the agency has taken a back seat to the White House.
1:03.0	CDC director, Robert Redfield, talked to Bloomberg about the agency's changing role
1:09.0	and its missteps early on in the crisis.
1:13.3	But first, here's what happened today.
1:24.1	Talk is increasingly turning to how and when the U.S. can restart its economy,
1:29.3	and what a rebooted economy would look like.
1:33.3	Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the U.S.,
1:38.3	said Monday that parts of the U.S. could be ready to ease up on coronavirus-related restrictions in May. But Fauci and
1:47.5	many others say that would depend on widespread testing becoming available. Fauci also said the U.S.
1:55.7	could see a second wave of the virus in November. The likelihood that the outbreak will keep coming and going in cycles has Neil Kashkari, president of the virus in November. The likelihood that the outbreak will keep coming and going in cycles
2:02.6	has Neil Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve,
2:06.6	predicting 18 months of rolling shutdowns.
2:11.6	Kashkari said on CBS's Face the Nation that without a vaccine or therapy for COVID-19, we will continue to have
2:20.0	to reimpose and then ease social distancing restrictions to keep the virus contained.
2:27.2	About that vaccine, the World Health Organization has said there are 70 coronavirus vaccines in development around the
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