Well, for one, the US response to the AIDS epidemic. Also calling it a catastrophe is just begging the question. Maybe every country in the world should have b

Well, for one, the US response to the AIDS epidemic. Also calling it a catastrophe is just begging the question. Maybe every country in the world should have been more prepared to deal with a novel respiratory virus causing a global pandemic, but they weren't, and in retrospect the primarily US-led response of making a vaccine using a new technology in one year and vaccinating a large percentage of the world in the next year is nothing short of astounding. The issue with arguing that the CDC lost a lot of public trust is much more nuanced, and well, maybe it did, but that has a lot more to do with external factors that have nothing to do with the CDC (such as political leadership) and not much to do with what the CDC itself did. And this isn't to say the CDC did everything right, or even did a "good" job. But they certainly didn't do a catastrophically bad job.