Highlights
- An investigative report published this week in the New York Times highlights the many failures by the CDC to "seize the COVID-19 moment."
- Bureaucracy, old technology, and politics undermined the agency's ability to lead the global pandemic response.
- US states find themselves without direction as many prepare for a second wave.
- Signs suggest that Anthony Fauci no longer has the ear of the Administration, according to a National Public Radio interview.
- Without Fauci at the helm and with the CDC taking a back seat, it is unclear what US states will face this summer.
- The CDC issued new guidelines requiring state laboratories to report COVID-19 case demographics (ethnicity, race, age, sex) to facilitate detection of pandemic-related disparities among patient populations.
- "Black Lives Matter" protests across the nation have officials fearing new transmission chains, or what some are calling a "pandemic within a pandemic."
- Writing in The Atlantic, journalist Ed Yong details an ignored and yet critical COVID-19 patient demographic: the long-haulers.
- These patients continue to experience waves of symptoms and are in what Yong calls "statistical limbo," unaccounted for and overlooked.
- Commonalities include initial mild illness, younger age, and previously being fit and healthy.
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