Tragedy of CDC: “The CDC is the world’s pre-eminent disease-fighting body... It was a highly professional, trusted organization, and they’re gone basically. It’s a tragedy for global health.” Thread 🧵:
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2) The agency is the model for the much smaller European CDC, as well as similar agencies in Africa and around the globe. It played a major role in eradicating smallpox, as well as the near-elimination of polio. Globally, it won acclaim for helping fight AIDS, Ebola and Zika.
3) “Almost every major outbreak has seen the United States step up and lead, and we’re seeing exactly the opposite with President Trump,” said @LawrenceGostin, director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. #COVID19
4) “Since the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic, Trump has stymied efforts to cooperate globally.
The CDC has become a “nonentity” in the coronavirus fight, said Ilona Kickbusch, founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. #COVID19
The CDC has become a “nonentity” in the coronavirus fight, said Ilona Kickbusch, founder of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. #COVID19
5) BOTTOM LINE: we need to let the CDC lead public health efforts again, as it was designed. #COVID19
