Three years after the pandemic lockdown, my distrust in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is bigger than ever. Prior to 2020, I had assumed that the CDC took meaningful, well considered, effective actions to ensure public health except for particular situations, such as Lyme disease. I know N95s and surgical masks were in short supply, but a good public health response could address that without setting the public up to view masks as useless. Now, when the official public health emergency declaration expires in 11 days, so does tracking/reporting community transmission levels, free testing and other emergency benefits. In the poll below, vote for the grade you assign the CDC’s pandemic response.

Source: Washington Post April 30, 2023 23:41 UTC