The doctor that no one asked for is giving advice that no one asked for, again. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of the pandemic, says that we should all commend the Center for Disease Control for admitting that they screwed up big time. Fauci seems to think admitting their shortcomings will somehow make the CDC better but the admission came after several discovery reports blasted the agency for mucking up their ONE job.
“I think they should be commended in the fact, particularly Dr. Walensky, realizing and recognizing the shortcomings that have been there for quite a long time, long antedating Dr. Walensky’s tenure,” Fauci told Andrea Mitchell. “I think it was the stress and the challenge of a historic pandemic that brought some of those deficiencies into sharp relief. I believe we should commend them for realizing that, particularly Dr. Walensky.”
In a message to the entire CDC staff Wednesday, Walensky said the agency “did not reliably meet expectations” during the pandemic and made some “pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes.”
“I’m actually optimistic that given the fact that the problems have now been recognized, that there’s a pathway to making a very good organization much better,” Fauci went on to say. “You’re not going to fix something unless you own it. As Dr. Walensky clearly stated, they made some mistakes, they’ve got to own it, and the only way to correct it is to realize that you have an issue.”
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Walensky proposed a list of changes that includes de-emphasizing published research in the hiring and promotion process, publishing research faster without peer review to get new information to the public sooner, and restructuring the agency’s communications team.
Again, the CDC did not come forward with its mistakes or inflated COVID numbers on its own. It’s more like they were forced to admit that they were not ready for a pandemic, despite the years of preparation time and funding that they have received.