CDC and Dr. William (Bill) Foege
Dr. William (Bill) Foege was the director when I started at CDC. Back then (1978) it was the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Now it is the Centers for Disease…
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CDC and political ping-pong
Do you remember CDC? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was once considered the best, or at least one of the best, public health agencies in the world….
President Trump, Science, CDC, and Death
…For some new details on the Trump administration’s attacks on CDC, see Propublica’s Inside the Fall of the CDC. For more of my writing on CDC see https://www.jackreidy.com/blog/?s=CDC. Share this:…
The worst announcement of the new CDC recommendation
President Trump told us of the CDC recommendation to wear a cloth face covering when in public to prevent the spread of coronavirus during his COVID-19 briefing Friday. But then…
Your freedom ends where mine begins
…mind. A longer list of vaccine preventable disease on on the CDC website. Some common questions, including vaccine safety, are also addressed by CDC. Regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, CDC tells…
Plunder : A Brett Carson Thriller by Keith Wilson
…with the part of CDC (EIS) that features in this book. The work of the CDC in preventing the spread of disease and preventing pandemics is extremely important. It did…
Read how the administration is undermining and endangering public health
As a retired CDC employee and scientist I read the recent perspective in the Washington Post by 4 former directors of that public health agency. It starts like this: As…
Masks Matter
…This policy of Georgia Governor Kemp seems a bit ironic since Georgia is the home state of CDC and the director of CDC believes the common sense public heath measure…
Politics and death
…interference with CDC by the Trump administration. We saw some of this over the last several months in pressure on CDC to revise school reopening guidelines and the reopening of…
President Trump ‘s great moves in this pandemic
…control it or it could just go away. Then it seems either he or someone in his administration muzzles the CDC so as not to upset the stock market. Then…
COVID-19 information
…cautious about what you believe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is good source of information. Here is a link to their pages on COVID-19: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html Share this:…
Save the children from the President
…is pushing an opening. He will pressure governors. He has threatened to deny federal aid to those areas not fully opening. He is pressuring CDC to water-down guidelines. School safety…
Seven words you cannot say
…for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot use are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.” Did anyone think President Trump would ever be mentioned at the same time…
March Tweet on H1N1, July update on COVID-19
…number near the high end of the CDC estimate below CDC estimates that between about 8,520 and 17,620 2009 H1N1-related deaths occurred between April 2009 and February 13, 2010. The…
Making the COVID-19 pandemic worse
…President Trump just ignores it. Then it seems either President Trump or someone in his administration muzzles the CDC so as not to upset the stock market. Then after someone…