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Man does that interview drive home just how much the CDC failed to do its job.  Might as well be called the Center for Disease Growth and Economic Destruction.

Not that it much matters at the moment, but I am quite sure that Dr. Cody was well aware six months ago that if this type of event did occur that she didn't have adequate capacity to respond. I am also quite sure that she, the California Department of Public Health, and the USPHS knew it also. The CDC is not the part of the federal government that would be most involved in the actual response. The USPHS is, FWIW. I am also quite sure we could find all kinds of reports from the CDC outlining what would be required of these agencies sitting in may filing cabinets. Unfortunately, this type of event was not a priority for anybody, you and I included.
This isn't rocket science, unfortunately. How to conduct this kind of epidemiology is well known and has been well known for a long time. New technology can be a force multiplier, but when you are multiplying by essentially zero, it doesn't help as much as one would hope. We just don't have the people, and it is hard to create a force in the middle of a battle. Hopefully, we can do it.
What I find real disturbing is that I see no evidence that the states that at present have a manageable number of cases, like even West Virginia, have mounted any serious epidemiological response. As I have posted previously, I believe that California already had too many undetected pockets of the disease early on to beat it back that way, but these other states are not in that condition. Yet, it doesn't seem to be happening.

[Goose]

Man does that interview drive home just how much the CDC failed to do its job.  Might as well be called the Center for Disease Growth and Economic Destruction.

Not that it much matters at the moment, but I am quite sure that Dr. Cody was well aware six months ago that if this type of event did occur that she didn't have adequate capacity to respond. I am also quite sure that she, the California Department of Public Health, and the USPHS knew it also. The CDC is not the part of the federal government that would be most involved in the actual response. The USPHS is, FWIW. I am also quite sure we could find all kinds of reports from the CDC outlining what would be required of these agencies sitting in may filing cabinets. Unfortunately, this type of event was not a priority for anybody, you and I included.
This isn't rocket science, unfortunately. How to conduct this kind of epidemiology is well known and has been well known for a long time. New technology can be a force multiplier, but when you are multiplying by essentially zero, it doesn't help as much as one would hope. We just don't have the people, and it is hard to create a force in the middle of a battle. Hopefully, we can do it.
What I find real disturbing is that I see no evidence that the states that at present have a manageable number of cases, like even West Virginia, have mounted any serious epidemiological response. As I have posted previously, I believe that California already had too many undetected pockets of the disease early on to beat it back that way, but these other states are not in that condition. Yet, it doesn't seem to be happening.