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Posted On: 07/31/2021 3:17:39 PM
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WSJ hammers CDC Covid response. Brilacidin needed more than ever.
Given the tremendous resources of the CDC and FDA, which together employ 39,000, these agencies ought to be able to report the statistics needed to make informed policy decisions. If the data are incomplete or flawed, so too will be the decisions derived from them. The vaccine’s benefits may outweigh its risks for healthy kids, but the government shouldn’t try to push that conclusion based on faulty data.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-covid-19-cor...1626706868
Now the CDC is recommending masks again based on evidence of the Delta’s increased transmissibility and vaccination rates that are leaving most places short of herd immunity. The risk is that some people may conclude from this new CDC guidance that, since we still need masks, there’s no need to be vaccinated. That is not true. Masks can help modestly limit the spread while we try to increase vaccination rates. The more people who get vaccinated, the less the virus will spread.
But let’s be clear, unlike the CDC: The virus will never be eradicated. It will eventually become endemic, and the public-health goal is to protect people from getting severely ill.
Congress created the CDC precisely to address an event like Covid-19. It has some 10,700 employees. Yet time and again in this pandemic the CDC has been a source of confusion or ineptitude. And Washington wonders why Americans have lost confidence in Covid experts.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-centers-for-...1627682562
There will also be a time to ask: Just how bad was the U.S. response? There’s a reason national governments previously did not attempt hands-on management of society’s adaptation to new flu-like viruses. Those who fret that Covid has revealed an alarming lack of “state capacity” perhaps have dangerously and unhealthily high aspirations for state capacity.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/delta-variant-co...1627679672
Given the tremendous resources of the CDC and FDA, which together employ 39,000, these agencies ought to be able to report the statistics needed to make informed policy decisions. If the data are incomplete or flawed, so too will be the decisions derived from them. The vaccine’s benefits may outweigh its risks for healthy kids, but the government shouldn’t try to push that conclusion based on faulty data.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-covid-19-cor...1626706868
Now the CDC is recommending masks again based on evidence of the Delta’s increased transmissibility and vaccination rates that are leaving most places short of herd immunity. The risk is that some people may conclude from this new CDC guidance that, since we still need masks, there’s no need to be vaccinated. That is not true. Masks can help modestly limit the spread while we try to increase vaccination rates. The more people who get vaccinated, the less the virus will spread.
But let’s be clear, unlike the CDC: The virus will never be eradicated. It will eventually become endemic, and the public-health goal is to protect people from getting severely ill.
Congress created the CDC precisely to address an event like Covid-19. It has some 10,700 employees. Yet time and again in this pandemic the CDC has been a source of confusion or ineptitude. And Washington wonders why Americans have lost confidence in Covid experts.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-centers-for-...1627682562
There will also be a time to ask: Just how bad was the U.S. response? There’s a reason national governments previously did not attempt hands-on management of society’s adaptation to new flu-like viruses. Those who fret that Covid has revealed an alarming lack of “state capacity” perhaps have dangerously and unhealthily high aspirations for state capacity.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/delta-variant-co...1627679672
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