The 242-page report expands on the colliding factors that led to early bungling of the pandemic response.
. The report offered a series of changes intended to revamp the agency and make it more nimble.
As the pandemic was taking hold in early 2020, "the U.S. failed to heed critical public warnings that foreshadowed the severity and transmissibility of the virus," the committee's majority staff found. By early February 2020, current and former federal officials "recognized what the Trump Administration did not: that the gravity and extent of the unfolding threat would likely require rapid and widespread interventions beyond containment," according to the report.
"As of February 29, 2020—by which time tens of thousands of Americans had likely been infected—CDC had tested fewer than 1,200 individuals for COVID-19," the report states. "As the response progressed, the Trump Administration's influence in CDC's guidance expanded to the point where political officials within HHS altered public health guidance and reports," according to the report. "In August 2020, the Trump Administration—without scientific justification—changed testing guidance to indicate asymptomatic individuals exposed to COVID-19 did not need a test.
A healthcare worker takes a test swab of an individual at a drive-thru testing facility at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic.The Trump White House "required approval of all telebriefings, media requests, and guidance documents, resulting in lengthy delays of critical health guidance and restricting CDC's ability to share information directly with the public," the report states.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Strategic National Stockpile was depleted following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, with inadequate PPE for health care workers in the event of a national crisis, the report found, and as the latest virus began gaining ground, critical inventory was low and did not contain testing supplies like nasal swabs and pipette tips.
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