For me, beyond recouping the costs, I think the CDC has demonstrated that it is too tightly coupled with politics [1][2]. I believe that any government body wil

For me, beyond recouping the costs, I think the CDC has demonstrated that it is too tightly coupled with politics [1][2]. I believe that any government body will eventually become constrained by the politics that it exists in and is funded by. I would, naively, claim that funding more neutral researchers/companies would provide better resistance to the politics of it all. As a counter argument, it would be easy to claim that the pharmaceutical companies are too tightly coupled to politicians. Perhaps this still results in greater efficiency, for now? 1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-cant-allow-the-cdc-to-be-tainted-by-politics/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-cant-allow-the... 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/cdc-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/cdc-trump.htm...