Politico: CDC wants to be trusted.

Mandy Cohen wants to win back America’s trust.

Perhaps this article is incomplete or misrepresents Mandy Cohen.  I hope so, because we need a CDC with integrity.

The new CDC director spent her first two months on the job telling audiences in New York, Wisconsin and Washington state the agency has made mistakes, a mea culpa of sorts meant to show that she understands past shortcomings.

Did Mandy Cohen go into detail about what mistakes were made, by whom and what action is being taken to make sure mistakes don’t happen again?   Absent further information, a good assumption is that Mandy Cohen gave the vague and impersonal “Mistakes were made.” line.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Wednesday warned healthy adults under the age of 65 against taking the newly approved Covid-19 vaccine.

Cohen called efforts to undercut vaccine uptake “unfounded and, frankly, dangerous.”

“I want to make sure folks know, particularly in Florida, that vaccination remains a safe way in terms of protecting against severe disease, hospitalization and death,” she said. “It’s important for Americans to get these shots.”

I hope Mandy Cohen did better than this.  If not, she is completely inept and the CDC is going to continue to spiral down the drain.  American doesn’t have a CDC anymore.

Does Mandy Cohen think that anyone gives two shits that she says something is ‘unfounded and frankly dangerous”?  That’s what not being trusted means.  She should be providing studies and research.  She should assume that Surgeon General Ladapo knows more and cares more about Floridan citizens than she does.

“A part of trust building is making sure people know I wouldn’t recommend something for the American people I wouldn’t recommend to my own family,” she told POLITICO.

There are plenty of people who recommend things for their families that sound batshit crazy.  Why would we think that Mandy Cohen is any different?  The CDC confidently lied to us.  She could be lying.

It’s hard to believe that anyone cares about Covid.