Comment by wonnage
13 hours ago
Furthermore the present CDC was gutted by an administration whose solution to Covid was to stop counting
13 hours ago
Furthermore the present CDC was gutted by an administration whose solution to Covid was to stop counting
And whose solution to "Is cyclospora a problem?" was to remove the monitoring and presumably stick their fingers in their ears.[0]
[0] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitorin...
The FoodNet thing, while bad, has a bit of nuance in the system was not meant to do outbreak detection, so likely wouldn't have helped here.
But it does cripple our ability to ask if this was a one-off, or if we're seeing long term trends that should be worrisome.
It would have made identifying the source trivial. Instead we had waves of confused and confusing reports.