Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, announced she will make major modifications to the agency’s structure including staffing changes and efforts to improve public messaging.
In a video sent to staff Wednesday morning, Walensky admitted the agency had made “pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes” related to testing, data and communications in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according toThe agency’s infrastructure was “too frail” to tackle Covid, Walensky said, according to Bloomberg.
Among the changes, Walensky plans to name a former Obama administration health official, Mary Wakefield, to help transform the CDC to focus more on public health; to hire more staff for a team that responds to public health emergencies; to create another new team to help decide how to spend the CDC’s $12 billion annual budget; to release data and scientific findings more quickly; and to ensure the CDC’s messaging is in “plain language” that’s easy to...
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