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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