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How The CDC's Blindspots Complicated The Fight Against COVID-19

PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus by FiveThirtyEight.com

Jun 30, 202112:35Science & Medicine

The CDC wants to be certain, so it typically waits for a critical mass of scientific evidence before making declarative statements. That takes time. Yet the communication to the public in this pandemic seemed to be worse...

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How The CDC's Blindspots Complicated The Fight Against COVID-19 is an episode from PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus by FiveThirtyEight.com. The CDC wants to be certain, so it typically waits for a critical mass of scient...

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Published Jun 30, 2021, 12:35 long, audio available.

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The CDC wants to be certain, so it typically waits for a critical mass of scientific evidence before making declarative statements. That takes time. Yet the communication to the public in this pandemic seemed to be worse than normal, and resulted in a huge loss of public trust. Over the past month, we spoke to nearly a dozen scientists who all agreed the CDC could have done better. But the root causes of the CDC's shortcomings will be hard to fix.

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How The CDC's Blindspots Complicated The Fight Against COVID-19 is an episode from PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus by FiveThirtyEight.com.

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Published Jun 30, 2021 and 12:35 long