Why the CDC Dropped the Pandemic Ball
A new article has come out that exposes some glaring failures at the CDC laboratories as the pandemic hit, but to overlook how this could happen will only cause a repeat of the same mistakes.
A recent investigation by BuzzFeed News has just confirmed what most of us already knew: the Center for Disease Control (CDC) — plagued by governmental dysfunction, cut-corners, and systematic failures — dropped the ball in the early days of the pandemic, as a result of neglecting essential laboratory oversight for decades. The probing article cites a full, 50-page conclusion assessing multiple failures, from Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) lawyers, completed in June 2020.
The full assessment of what actually happened included handwritten notes from the investigatory lawyers that gave “mental impressions” from those who were interviewed. “People can come indoors and go,” one investigator wrote. Another note read: “No regulation of people through the lab,” and yet another stated, “Multiple sources [of] potential contamination.”
The only report that was made public was a three-page summary from HHS that ended with the following sentence: “The review did not uncover any evidence of false positive or false negative test results for patient specimens caused by the potential contamination.”
According to the author of this latest expose, once the HHS became aware that the documents had been obtained by BuzzFeed, and an agency spokesperson declined to comment, another HHS official called back five minutes later to claim the full report was “inadvertently released” and asked that the material be deleted.
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