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Aiming to make CDC nimble, agency director has rankled many
By MIKE STOBBE cal health officials and the
NEW YORK (AP) — From the public.
beginning of the COVID-19 "I think they are absolutely
pandemic, the top U.S. trying to be more nimble —
public health agency has and that's a good thing. I
been criticized as too slow don't criticize that," said Dr.
to collect and act on new Georges Benjamin, execu-
information. tive director of the Ameri-
Now, increasingly, the can Public Health Asso-
Centers for Disease Con- ciation. "I criticize the fact
trol and Prevention is also that when you're doing this
being criticized for moving quickly, in an evolving envi-
too fast. ronment, you can't just put
One year into Dr. Rochelle it out there and think that
Walensky's tenure as direc- people understand it."
tor, her bid to make the Walensky has said that she
CDC more agile is being came to the CDC thinking
challenged by political about ways to speed data
pressures, vocal scientists collection and reporting.
and the changing virus it- She once told The Associ-
self. In its haste, some ex- ated Press that she didn’t
perts say, the agency has want the agency to spend
repeatedly stumbled — months gathering data
moving too quickly, be- that gets published after
fore the science was clear, it’s useful. “Like, no one will
and then failing to com- care,” she said.
municate clearly with lo- Continued on next page