Prior to the CDC, Frieden came to Democrats’ attention as Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s healthcare expert intent on ending the scourge of … Frieden is not cut out for the job of calming a public and doing his job as CDC Director. It is not his fault. … But Frieden needs to resign or be removed by the President as a first step in restoring calm by placing the CDC in more capable hands…
The CDC knew Nurse Vincent was flying after treating Patient 0, and approved of her getting on the plane. … “This nurse, Nurse Vinson, did in fact call the CDC several times before taking that flight and said she has a temperature, a fever … of 99.5, and the person at the CDC looked at a chart and because her temperature wasn’t 100.4 or higher she didn’t officially fall…
To call CDC Director’s Thomas Frieden’s performance in front of today’s hearing of [mc_name name=’Rep. … Frieden also implies that the CDC is worried that Mexico would allow entry to people from countries with Ebola outbreaks and allow … The sham countermeasures that Frieden’s CDC has implemented increase the likelihood that we will attract people who know they have…
Though the CDC and NIH have in-house, known as intramural, research capabilities the lion’s share of research is carried out by educational … The various institutes and centers that make up the NIH and CDC tend to be parochial.…
Little of what the CDC is doing makes sense to outside observers. … Why do I get the feeling the leadership at the CDC is looking at the situation politically? … Of course it can happen at the CDC.
This is not good.…
Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health are pulling out all the stops to capitalize … This morning Erick showed how the GOP has funded CDC at higher levels than those requested by the administration. … The CDC has been the most blatant about turning death and fear into cold hard cash, but the NIH is now joining this budgetary equivalent…
According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, in January the CDC won in the budget deal. … And what did the CDC intend to do with all that money. Cure Ebola?
Well, umm . . . . … The CDC listed some of its top spending priorities in its fiscal 2014 budget request.…
The CDC also spent its money to survey what bus riders thought of HIV videos. … Hey, and let’s not forget all the money the CDC spent to convince people to stop smoking and now we need tobacco to manufacture the…
Later today the CDC will advise whether Patient #1 does indeed have Ebola. … The CDC will do a test in Atlanta to confirm or refute the results. … The CDC trusted them and found out the hard way that they couldn’t be trusted. But we’re to trust the CDC that made the deal?…
The fact is that Frieden and the CDC are using the Rahm Emanuel dictum of never letting a crisis go to waste:
Congress gave the CDC … The fact is that CDC did all that it could, or chose to do, in Dallas. … It further damages the already shaky credibility of CDC.
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What the actions of CDC Director Tom Frieden and the comments of Dr. … Not to put too fine a point on it, but both CDC and NIH have adopted the view that they, not elected officials, govern the nation and…
On Wednesday, CDC Director Tom Frieden announced new screening for all passengers traveling from one of the nations with an active … If the new CDC monitoring rules had been in place at the time, Frieden said, it “would have in all likelihood resulted in that first … Via CDC:
The patient has been notified of the test results and remains in isolation.…
The core of the problem is not that NIH or CDC has too little money but rather they have too much. … When Congress comes back together it is going to be hit with a lot of pressure to throw more money at the NIH and CDC.…
edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by John Daniel Davidson to discuss the Ebola outbreak in Dallas, the incompetent CDC … response and how mission creep at the CDC has left them unprepared to respond to a dangerous outbreak. … State
Obama confident the US won’t see “serious outbreak” of Ebola
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The guidance from the CDC was wonderful according to Senator Shill. … Yesterday, in Charlotte, she praised the Centers for Disease Control for offering ‘great guidance’ on Ebola, despite the fact that the CDC-recommended … protocols failed to protect two Texas nurses, and the CDC allowed one of the nurses to fly on a commercial airline.…
McConnell’s call to listen to the CDC on this issue makes no sense when one considers the lack of candor, utter incompetence, and shameless … dishonesty the CDC has exhibited so far. … In fact, at every step along the way the CDC has failed America.…
According to the CDC, to the extent that we trust anything they say anymore, nearly 1100 people from countries with an active Ebola … Why does the CDC talk about people and Silver talk about flights? Because because people carry Ebola not airplanes.…
I chose the image for this story because it best sums up CDC hubris and incompetence. … Though, based on what CDC was saying at the time, I don’t know that for sure. … Under CDC guidance when Mr.…
