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CDC director admits shortcomings in US pandemic response

This content was published on August 17, 2022 – 6:39 p.m. August 17, 2022 – 6:39 p.m

Washington, 17 August (EFE) .- The director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, this Wednesday acknowledged failures in her institution’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States and advocated one Make emergency agency reform more agile.

In a message to CDC staff, Walensky explained that the institution will focus more on making clear public health recommendations and making relevant science available to the public, according to US media, rather than focusing so much on academic research focus.

“The CDC and public health system have been preparing for COVID-19 for 75 years, and at the crucial moment, our response fell short of expectations,” the scientist said in her message.

Although Walensky’s message does not reveal any specific actions, the doctor has appointed Mary Wakefield, who was Assistant Secretary of Health for Health, Education and Welfare during the Barack Obama administration (2009-2017), to lead this reform of the institution.

The words of the director of the state’s Disease Prevention Agency come after a four-month investigation ordered by Walensky himself to assess the structure and processes of the organism.

Since the pandemic began, the CDC has been criticized for its frequent changes in criteria for taking appropriate measures to prevent infection, its criteria for approving tests, and its slowness in disclosing key data on transmission of the disease.

The United States is the country that has recorded the most deaths from Covid-19, more than a million people, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. According to this institution, there have been 6.4 million deaths worldwide so far. EFE

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