[Jim Noble]

Agree 100% about CDC. I have interacted professionally at least monthly with CDC since 1974 and the slow, steady decline in functionality and the simultaneous mission creep have been terrible to watch.

Not enough criticism of FDA though, FDA is primarily responsible for both the lack of new PPE production, the restriction of PPE imports AND the testing disaster.

[Politically Correct]

Agree 100% about CDC. I have interacted professionally at least monthly with CDC since 1974 and the slow, steady decline in functionality and the simultaneous mission creep have been terrible to watch. Not enough criticism of FDA though, FDA is primarily responsible for both the lack of new PPE production, the restriction of PPE imports AND the testing disaster.

My interactions professionally with the CDC began in about 1990. We tried to report the presence of Lyme disease in Missouri. Sequenced the genes of the little bugger. Showed it microscopically. Even found the tick that was the reservoir. They refused to recognize it.

After about 10 years our main guy died of unrelated causes and they finally got around to calling it Lyme-like. There was a lot of "not found here, doesn't exist" going on.

Today, thirty years later, clinicians in the area routinely order tests for Lyme disease, find it and treat it.