My promise is that CDC will continue to follow the science as our guide, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told senators last week. While Walensky thinks the CDC already is doing that, her premise is contradicted by the agency s history of arbitrary, dubious and ever-changing advice about COVID-19.
Early in the pandemic, the CDC, together with the Food and Drug Administration, disastrously bungled the rollout of virus tests, making it impossible to curtail the spread of COVID-19 through contact tracing. Its obstruction of independently produced tests was coupled with irrationally narrow guidelines that initially recommended screening only for symptomatic travelers from China and people who had been in close contact with them.
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“My promise is that CDC will continue to follow the science as our guide,” Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told senators last week.
While Walensky thinks the CDC already is doing that, her premise is contradicted by the agency’s history of arbitrary, dubious and ever-changing advice about COVID-19.
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Early in the pandemic, the CDC, together with the Food and Drug Administration, disastrously bungled the rollout of virus tests, making it impossible to curtail the spread of COVID-19 through contact tracing. Its obstruction of independently produced tests was coupled with irrationally narrow guidelines that initially recommended screening only for symptomatic travelers from China and people who had been in close contact with them.
Investing in the End of Pandemics
Reason magazine last week titled Why COVID-19 May Be the Last Pandemic.”
The argument is that medical breakthroughs in the world of biotech such as “messenger RNA” vaccines will result in the global community never having to suffer from diseases like COVID-19 again.
Reason science correspondent Ronald Bailey writes:
The horrors of the last year have spurred humanity to quickly develop an unprecedentedly flexible and powerful tool kit that may well make COVID-19 the last true pandemic.
Now you can just slip any piece of genetic information into [a] lipid and. you have a vaccine.
12 05 2021
Located close to Changi Prison and in the Changi area where tens of thousands of Allied Prisoners-of-War (POWs) and civilians were held captive during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945, Changi Chapel and Museum (CCM) is a place to remember the experiences of those held and a site of pilgrimage for the families of those held captive. Closed for a huge revamp since 2018, CCM will reopen on 19 May 2021 with a with a refreshingly new feel, a new logo, and offer an experience that will be a lot more immersive.
The new look Changi Chapel and Museum – a huge improvement from its previous incarnation. The visitor services area, which spots a new look logo, with the CCM monogram shaped like a POW chapel. The logo is also designed to resemble prison bars.
By Post Editorial Board
May 9, 2021 | 6:49 PM
Libertarian: Joeâs âCounterproductiveâ Vax Move As the pandemic continues to ravage the developing world, âthe Biden administration has reportedly chosen, counterproductively, to cave to the demands of progressives at home and of a group of countries led by South Africa and Indiaâ and back waiving patent rights to the COVID-19 vaccines, sighs Reason’s Ronald Bailey…. ); } return false; }); $( #comments .commentlist .comment-content a ).attr( target , blank );
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