U.S. Public Health Agencies Aren’t ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say
President Joe Biden tours the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, in March 2021. (Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)
‘People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.’
The calls and text messages are relentless. On the other end are doctors and scientists at the top levels of the NIH, FDA and CDC. They are variously frustrated, exasperated and alarmed about the direction of the agencies to which they have devoted their careers.
“It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes,” one senior F…
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