In the final episode of our series, America’s Public Health Experiment, Dylan, Dara, and Jerusalem discuss how the CDC and the FDA failed the American public in the early months of the pandemic. Plus, a white paper about excess deaths in the first year of Covid-19.
References:
How the experts botched masking advice
Zeynep Tufekci on the case for masks (in March 2020)
Inside the Fall of the CDC
Can the CDC be fixed?
How the CDC failed to detect Covid early
Scott Gottlieb on CDC versus FDA turf wars
The Government Asked Us Not To Release Records From The CDC’s First Failed COVID Test. Here They Are.
Zeynep Tufekci in the Atlantic: The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes
Dylan Scott on FDA approval of controversial Alzheimer's drug
White paper: Excess Deaths in the United States During the First Year of COVID-19
What happened to drug deaths in 2020
Hosts:
Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox
Jerusalem Demsas (@jerusalemdemsas), policy reporter, Vox
Dara Lind (@dlind), immigration reporter, ProPublica
Credits:
Sofi LaLonde, producer & engineer
Libby Nelson, editorial adviser
Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts
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