Monday, March 17, 2025

Could have saved lives by not following the CDC bureaucracy

NYC health officials missed early COVID spread by following CDC bureaucrats: ‘Possibility we could have saved lives’


The city Health Department missed early detection of COVID-19 because it listened to CDC bureaucrats — losing the chance to potentially spare untold numbers from death, a former agency director claims.

The department’s leadership decided to strictly adhere to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s rigid COVID-19 testing guidelines in early 2020, which delayed confirming the presence and transmission of the virus in the Big Apple by more than a month, writes Don Weiss in his new book, “Disease Detectives: True Stories of NYC Outbreaks.”


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