The War on Public Health Continues

During the COVID outbreak, President Trump said, “If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”  That philosophy seems to have taken hold during his second term in office. On Friday, the Administration fired more than a thousand CDC workers, incljding the scientists and doctors who provide key information and expertise about infectious disease outbreaks.  The effect is to kneecap the government’s capacity to detect and track outbreaks.