Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Reorganization Ahead For Centers For Disease Control and Prevention of the United States

Too little, too late?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States will undergo a sweeping reorganization with a series of changes — that are referred to as optimizations — in order to position the federal agency to better support the future of public health; and are intended to ensure that the science and programs of the agency reach the public in a timely and effective manner both during a pandemic and during normal operations.

Reorganization Ahead For Centers For Disease Control and Prevention of the United States

Rochelle P. Walensky — who is the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry — outlined the changes in the organization of the agency in this document called CDC Moving Forward, which are designed to not only change how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operates but also its culture, orienting it toward timely action – ensuring that the science of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reaches the public in an understandable, accessible, and implementable manner as quickly as possible.

As the first of those next steps to move the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention forward, the agency will immediately:

  • Appoint a seasoned executive to lead a team that will help implement the vision.
  • Elevate the Science and Laboratory Sciences to report to the director in order to improve accountability for delivering timely information.
  • Start a process to make structural changes to incentivize public health action, implementation, and impact at all levels of the organization.
  • Create a new executive council — reporting to the director — that will determine agency. priorities, track progress, and align budget decisions, with a bias toward public health impact
  • Create a one-stop shop for external partners to navigate the agency.
  • Create a new equity office that will promote this focus across all of the work Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does, as well as how the agency operates; a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that reflects the diversity of America will be better positioned to respond to outbreaks — from science to communications.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledges that a significant amount of work is ahead in order to better position itself for success, as it:

  • First must institutionalize new internal systems, processes, and policies to improve its accountability, collaboration, communication, and timeliness within the agency itself and with its customers, at all levels of the organization.
  • Second, must take its concrete lessons learned from the current 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic to improve how the agency delivers its science, guidance, and programs to the people of the United States.
  • Next, will reorganize to facilitate a more cohesive and customer centric structure.
  • Finally, will finalize a list of programs, flexibilities, and authorities that will enable employees at the agency to do their work faster and more effectively in the future.

Final Boarding Call

In terms of the current 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic, these changes — which were announced within a week of the official announcement of Anthony Fauci stepping down from his roles in the federal government in December of 2022 — are too little, too late, in my opinion.

I lost a lot of trust and respect for:

…as I believe they mishandled — no, bungled — what should have been a reasonable, logical, and cohesive response to the pandemic. They should all be held accountable for their actions in what seemed like collusion to perpetuate propaganda and virtue signaling in advancing a faulty agenda that caused far more damage than good, which is taking years to fix and correct — but, of course, that will never happen.

As one example, travel was — and still is, in many ways — one of the industries which was most affected by the seemingly inept decisions of those entities. This means that you and I were adversely affected…

…and that is only pertaining to economics, which includes people who legally accepted money from the Paycheck Protection Program despite not being adversely affected economically. I will not even begin to discuss how many people ironically died, were injured, partially or completely lost their livelihoods, or were psychologically adversely affected by the blanket of bad decisions of the aforementioned entities — all in the name of taking advantage of fear mongering tactics for profit, power, and advancing political agendas — during the height of the pandemic. Some healthy people are still to this day very afraid to venture out into the world and resume a normal life because they might contract some variant of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.

Although the World Health Organization had supposedly began undergoing a “transformation” back in 2017, I am not going to hold my breath and wait for an official announcement from the entity as to how they will do better when — not if — the next pandemic surfaces…

…and do not even get me started about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I knew a few people who worked at the agency and had nothing but negative things to say about it. To me, that agency is a classic example of a bloated federal government which is simply too big and cumbersome and needs to be pared — probably by at least one third of its current size.

However, I will give a modicum of credit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for at least attempting to pivot towards a better future. Time will tell if this effort pays off for the agency, which has to prove that it can be trusted once again. I wish the agency luck. It is going to need every bit of it for the future.

Anyone who has been directing other people to “follow the science” should know that the first rule of science is to question it. I not only still stand behind the articles which I have written for approximately 2.5 years throughout the pandemic; but now that we have some hindsight, I vehemently adhere to the ideas and principles about which I wrote more than ever.

For a complete list of those articles — which include links to them — please refer to this article which was published exactly one year after the pandemic was official declared by the World Health Organization; and this article — which was published exactly one year after that — discusses what we might have learned and not learned over those two years.

Photograph ©2021 by Brian Cohen.

  1. During the pandemic, the CDC faced a problem, continuing today on whether to make recommendations based on prioritizing individuals, public health as a society, or economic interests. For example, early in the pandemic, a recommendation based solely on an individual’s interests is to wear N95 masks, even hoard them. However, that’s not in the best interests of public health as a society.

    As far as Brian writing ” Some healthy people are still to this day very afraid to venture out into the world and resume a normal life because they might contract some variant of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.”, I might be viewed as one of those healthy people. A closer look reveals a different story. I have contact with an elderly relative that needs physical help. One bout of Covid could easily leave this relative dead. Therefore, I need to watch my health. Another consideration is that I now prioritize prospective encounters. Something with moderate risk but providing little benefit is duly noted. For example, I am not going to The Home Depot maskless. The benefit of not wearing a mask is outweighed by the benefits of wearing a mask. What am I trying to do, pick up an amateur carpenter in overalls? No!

    Am I going to bring my lunch to work or eat at a lousy restaurant? No, I am not going to get Covid eating at a place that is conveniently located but not a very good restaurant. An outstanding restaurant? Maybe.

  2. Amen and hallelujah. The media coverage and attempt to steer thought has been abhorrent. Boardingarea was almost entirely unreadable over the past 2+ years, it’s been sickening. I can only hope there was a dropoff in clicks for the bloggers and will force them to reexamine and serve penance for what they did. The main bloggers have been grotesque in their sycophantic devotion to propaganda. I’ll never again click on OMATs links no matter the tease. Leff pushed nuanced government double speak and that other Michigan-fan loser hid in Puerto Rico for 2 years. Good lord. That crazy gal who loves Disney was like some bad, hysterical covid prepper. Matthew at least traveled early on but never had the guts to say what needed to be said. That US dude that lives in the UK is already lost to euro mind control so I had zero expectation there anyway.

    As for the CDC, WHO, and all the other useless 3 letter agencies, their time has come and gone and, obviously, they know it. The public has zero faith in them at this point. I’m simply amazed the medical community hasn’t realized this, massive egos. They’re still wearing masks at hospitals for some unknown reason. The bright side of all this is that we now have a multi generational cohort that distrusts government intensely. That is a nightmare for the globalists.

    1. Willy wrote “They’re still wearing masks at hospitals for some unknown reason. ” Not some unknown reason. There are several reasons.

      1. Many states have a mask mandate in hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes. Repeated violations of this could result in suspension of medical license which, by federal law, requires that all 50 state medical boards are notified of this.
      2. There may be hospital regulations. A doctor is not going to be fired over this.
      3. People who work with Covid patients but wear N95 masks have been shown not to get sick. That is because N95 masks work.
      4. If you have a good job, have suffered through much education to get there, why throw it away by getting sick by an ungrateful patient?
      5. If a patient gets Covid just after visiting a clinic, that could be bad news for the clinic.

  3. I just read Brian’s fine article written 1 year after the pandemic was declared. It was written in March 2021. It refers to 500,000+ Americans dead, referring it to be 0.16% of the population.

    August 2022 is nearly 2 1/2 years after the pandemic was declared by the WHO. WHO declarations are partly bureaucratic but I do agree that something big and bad is happening disease-wise, which they call a pandemic. How many Americans dead? 1.04 million. That is a lot. You can say it’s “only” one-third of one percent.

    On the other hand, what there was an airline crash every 300 flights? Oh my! I would seriously re-evaluate when and how often I would fly. One might say “only 1/3 of 1 percent dead” but I would definitely not fly nearly as often if there was such a high crash rate. I should tabulate how many flights I’ve been aboard. It may be 2,000. It’s way, way past 400, which is when my first log ended. (I restarted the log in 2015 and can recreate many flights using old records). If it is 2,000, then I would be dead already. There’s also the possibility of long term serious illness. I know someone that is suffering from that. It is not fun for them. This person is frequently seeing different specialists for different health problems. This person is not nutty.

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