Category Archives: CDC

Finally, the CDC Asks People to Wear Masks

Posted on December 6, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

About fucking time (boldface mine): The Centers for Disease Control Prevention on Monday encouraged people to wear masks to help reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses this season as Covid, flu and RSV circulate at the same time. CDC Director … Continue reading →

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Walensky’s CDC Reforms Are Long Overdue, but Would Have Done Nothing to Prevent Its Failures in Early 2021

Posted on August 22, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, CDC Director Walensky described a set of proposed reforms of the CDC (boldface mine): Dr. Walensky laid out her basic conclusion from the review in candid terms: The C.D.C. must refocus itself on public health needs, respond much faster … Continue reading →

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Muddled Messages from the CDC

Posted on August 16, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

There’s a lot to be said, most of it not good, about the CDC’s new COVID guidelines, but there are three issues worth focusing on. First, while some COVID safety policies are relaxed, it’s worth noting that the CDC is … Continue reading →

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SurveySeroprevalence says: Omicron Infected Lots of People

Posted on April 27, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

You probably guessed that, but it’s good to have seroprevalence data, even if the CDC website hasn’t been updated yet. From EID (boldface mine): Sera are tested for anti-nucleocapsid (anti-N) antibodies, which are produced in response to infection but are … Continue reading →

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CDC Needs to Fix Its Mask Madness (Updated)

Posted on March 21, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Added: I wrote this on Saturday, and since then, this happened (boldface mine): The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to notify hospitals that patients should be allowed to wear their N95s when entering, said Ives-Rublee, who works at … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the CDC’s New COVID Indicators

Posted on February 28, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Uncharitable ones. Last Friday, as the invasion of Ukraine kicked into high gear, the CDC released new COVID guidelines, “Indicators for Monitoring COVID-19 Community Levels and COVID-19 andImplementing COVID-19 Prevention Strategies.” I suppose the tl;dr version is that the CDC … Continue reading →

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Most Schools Still Should Not Be Open Based on the CDC Criteria

Posted on April 2, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

Then again, we’ve never seriously used COVID-19 prevalence statistics to tighten restrictions, so why would we start now? As of yesterday, using the CDC criteria of 50 new cases per week per 100,000 people and a percent positive rate less … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on the CDC’s New School Guidance

Posted on February 17, 2021 by mikethemadbiologist

I realize last week much of the nation was watching jury nullification happen in real time (aka ‘the impeachment trial’), but last week, the CDC released an “Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Mitigation.” For the first time in … Continue reading →

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The FDA Is Hurting Our COVID-19 Response Too

Posted on July 17, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

While the failure by the CDC to quickly release a COVID-19 PCR test has been condemned–correctly*–and even Dr. Tony Fauci of NIH is coming under attack, the FDA, on the whole, seems to have been ignored, but they really shouldn’t … Continue reading →

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COVID-19, Geography, and Influence on Policy

Posted on July 16, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Or why moving certain functions out of Wor-Shing-Tun is a bad idea. Every so often, some pundit comes up with the supposedly brilliant idea of moving government agencies out of Washington D.C., so the government can see what ‘life is … Continue reading →

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