The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once considered the gold standard of public health, finds itself at a crossroads.

Trust in the CDC plummeted during the height of the pandemic.

This is what Dr. Mandy Cohen faces as she takes the helm of the agency.

First on her long list of goals, rebuilding credibility lost because of some CDC missteps during the pandemic. Welcome to the death panel.

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Death Panel underscore.

Today I'm here with my two co-hosts, Artie Verkent.

Hello.

And Phil Rocco.

Hi.

And the three of us are going to be discussing Mandy Cohen, who is President Biden's newly appointed

director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who was just sworn in starting

her new job a couple weeks ago in early July. Two years into the Biden administration,

here we are again with yet another big staffing shakeup. We're, you know, just two months out from the end of the COVID public health emergency.

And as we've been talking about in our ongoing coverage of Rochelle Bolensky, former CDC director's departure, you know, many of the most visible faces of the Biden pandemic response are already out of the White House or have been recently cycled out of their roles or into new roles.

For example, you know, you have Ashish Jha, who his last day was in mid-June and he was the former

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