COVID deaths deserved better from CDC. Here's how we fix it
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The American people still lack an honest assessment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Brian Miller is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Citizens must demand and Congress should honor those who died by undertaking the hard work of CDC reform, starting with rejecting "more of the same" policy recommendations and instead transform the agency’s workforce in order to transform its culture.
Despite prior successes fighting Ebola and H1N1 influenza, the agency’s mission and culture have drifted from its roots as a public health readiness and response-oriented agency to an academic, siloed organization focused on publishing papers. As New York City hospital morgues overflowed and bodies started piling up in refrigerated trucks, CDC bureaucrats worked from home – issuing outdated public health guidance, promoting school closures, and engaging in unchecked economic regulation through an eviction moratorium.