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This is also in part because the White House fired the CDC Pandemic Response Unit and cut their funding in 2018.
by three_seagrass 7y ago
This is also in part because the White House fired the CDC Pandemic Response Unit and cut their funding in 2018.
- ineedasername 7y agoI'm not saying I don't believe something was cut, but I can't find an official CDC reference to something called "pandemic response unit" Edit: I found reference to various leadership positions that would help respond to a pandemic be eliminated or left vacant [0], though I think that says something a bit different (still bad though) than the entire US pandemic response capability, or "unit", being axed. [0]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
- 1986 7y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
- RVuRnvbM2e 7y ago> The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton. Not sure how much more explicit that 2018 WaPo article can be.
- ineedasername 7y agoFrom what I can tell though, that was more of an oversight team at the NSC level though, not the actual CDC folks or HHS folks that would really be dealing with this stuff. Again, I'm not saying that isn't bad, but it's not the same as saying the "pandemic response unit" was disbanded, which doesn't seem to be the official name of any actual unit, and it's a phrase that seems to imply that all of our pandemic response capabilities were dismantled. They weren't.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoWas that part of the CDC or part of the NSC?