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Furthermore the present CDC was gutted by an administration whose solution to Covid was to stop counting

• zimpenfish 21d ago
  And whose solution to "Is cyclospora a problem?" was to remove the monitoring and presumably stick their fingers in their ears.[0] [0] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitoring-parasite-cyclospora-12180951 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitorin...
  • Fomite 21d ago
    The FoodNet thing, while bad, has a bit of nuance in the system was not meant to do outbreak detection, so likely wouldn't have helped here. But it does cripple our ability to ask if this was a one-off, or if we're seeing long term trends that should be worrisome.
    • mapontosevenths 21d ago
      It would have made identifying the source trivial. Instead we had waves of confused and confusing reports.