Per your first point, you are incorrect. From the CDC About page: * CDC is the nation’s health protection agency, working 24/7 to protect America from health a

Per your first point, you are incorrect. From the CDC About page: * CDC is the nation’s health protection agency, working 24/7 to protect America from health and safety threats, both foreign and domestic. CDC increases the health security of our nation.* “Protection” is active, not passive. So yes, they are the center for pandemic control. And if you don’t like my wording, then check out this page [0] which is the homepage for the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases (DDID). On that page it states that “he directed CDC’s 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Vaccine Task Force”. Finally, this funding story has been denied [1] by the CDC itself. So yes, someone dropped the ball. I’m not mad about that (it’s a complicated environment, etc), as much as I am mad that nobody will own up to it. That lack of responsibility is why I hate politics and Washington crap in general. [0] - https://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/oid.html https://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/oid.html [1] - https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/false-claim-about-cdcs-global-anti-pandemic-work/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/false-claim-about-cdcs-glo...