“Ebola didn't touch everyone. Zika didn't touch everyone. Even during those what I would call public health crises, people didn't always know what the CDC stood for,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said.
Health officials have long tried to draw more attention and funding from Congress to prop up the public health sector, which Walensky said has lost nearly 80,00 workers in the last 10 years. Former CDC officials, including Tom Frieden, the agency's director under President Barack Obama, prioritized funding to improve how state public health offices received and analyzed laboratory reports. Still, data-collection problems persisted as public health officials continued to leave their jobs.
In recent months, the CDC has come under fire from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and within the administration, for its data, primarily the gaps that still exist two years into the pandemic. The agency has struggled to report accurate vaccination, hospitalization and case information due in part to delayed reporting from overburdened state health agencies. In a Senate HELP Committee hearing last week, Walensky said the agency was six weeks behind in compiling and analyzing state Covid-19 data.
“The pipes have to connect,” Walensky said. “We also have to get to a place where each state is collecting data that … can feed in in a way that can be crosstalk with all the other states.” Eventually, Walensky said, Covid-19 will become endemic. The big question: When? In a speech last week, President Joe Biden struck a tone of optimism, saying: “We're moving toward a time when Covid won't disrupt our daily lives.”Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical officer, said the country is still not controlling the virus — a marker that the pandemic has moved into what he calls “phase two.
When pressed for indicators that would signal the country is heading in that direction, Walensky said when cases “stay down.”
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