Center for Disease Control Lagging Response to Pandemic
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) slow and poor response has handicapped the US fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic. The latest example of their incompetence has cost ~8k Americans their lives including that of Colin Powell. Since the first vaccines were given to Americans in December 2020, there were always nagging questions about how good were the vaccines’ efficacy, safety, and durability in real life. The vaccines were developed, tested, and approved remarkably fast causing many Americans to have questions. The correct approach would have been to collect as much data as possible afterward to determine the real-life efficacy, safety, and durability of these vaccines. Instead of doing this, the CDC arrogantly decided that breakthrough cases (infections after being fully vaccinated) would be rare and mostly mild and would concentrate on collecting select data for serious cases that resulted in hospitalizations and deaths. This was substandard compared to