(Atlanta, GA) — The CDC is admitting it failed in its response to COVID-19. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky slammed her agency’s public guidance during the pandemic, calling it “confusing and overwhelming,” while calling for an overhaul. She met with her senior staff to plan out a reorganization of the CDC’s structure, with public health and containing outbreaks top of mind. LA County leaned heavily as the Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer –who is not a medical doctor–continually cited CDC guidance which they now admit was wrong.
An AP article quoted Walensky: “It’s not lost on me that we fell short in many ways” responding to the coronavirus, Walensky said. “We had some pretty public mistakes, and so much of this effort was to hold up the mirror … to understand where and how we could do better.”
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