[artichokegrower]

The city contacted Costa’s office, who forced the CDC to actually visit the site. The CDC said it found no “select agents” – the really really bad things like Ebola – and went home without testing the materials in the marked vials.

Nor did the CDC look into the refrigerator that had a sign on it that said “Ebola.”

Last fall, then-new CDC chief Mandy Cohen defended the agency during a Congressional hearing.

Cohen said they found no “select agents,” (those are really nasty things; here’s the list – note Ebola is on the list though the CDC claims they were unaware of the refrigerator sign) but admitted they did not test anything, basically because it’s not what they do.

The CDC will shut down a church having an in person service during COVID but not a Chinese biolab

[Parley Baer]

IMHO there is a whole lot more to this story.