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The resources wasted and misinformation spread by the CDC throughout the COVID-19 pandemic make it difficult to imagine how the agency could ever be fixed.
As the COVID-19 pandemic seems in many ways to be winding down, journalists and academics are reflecting on the performance of our official institutions, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in handling this global health disaster.
The New York Times Magazine recently published an article titled “Can the CDC Be Fixed?” by Times staff writer and editorial board member Jeneen Interlandi. As her analysis shows, the actions of the nation’s health protection agency throughout its COVID-19 response do not bode well for its ability to steward the nation through future catastrophes, or even more ordinary public health issues. A Labyrinth of Ignorance
After investigating the agency, Interlandi reports that, “The CDC maintains more than 100 separate disease-specific computer systems (a byproduct of the agency’s funding silos), and many of those can’t interface with one another.” As a result, she observes, “Crucial data is often shepherded from health care facilities to health departments through a tortured process that can involve handwritten notes, manual spreadsheets, fax machines, and snail mail.”
Jeneen Interlandi and The New York Times Magazine are right to notice that the CDC may simply be unfixable.
Bill Hanage, public health scientist at Harvard University, is quoted as saying that the CDC has “no rational plan behind it,” and its “random patchwork collaborations were initiated and transformed and now have an outsize impact on our understanding of public health.”
“It’s not uncommon for basic information like race, ethnicity, age, or address to be missing from clinical reports,” Interlandi writes. “It’s also not uncommon for those reports to languish at the state or local level without ever making their way to federal officials. Even the most serious diseases, which are supposed to be logged within 24 hours of detection and reported to the CDC in a timely way, are not necessarily sent up that chain in any systematic manner.”
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