The agency’s response to the worst public health crisis in a century — the coronavirus pandemic — has been marked by technical blunders and botched messaging. Atlas has no experience in public health but attends all meetings of the White House coronavirus task force. On Wednesday, Atlas stood at the White House press room podium and contradicted Redfield’s sworn testimony that about 90 percent of Americans remain vulnerable to the coronavirus. “Every big public health response has two components: the public health emergency and the political emergency. Some public health experts say the CDC can regain credibility only with a wholesale change at the top.

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2020 12:03 UTC