The money can only really be used by those eight little sections or centers within the CDC. That gives the CDC a lot less flexibility and also subjects them to big changes depending on the mood in Congress. The amount of despair that I heard from people on whether our politicians could be trusted to do what they need to do was just it was very saddening.
Or at least the federal government is over spending money on it. Vox’s resident epidemiologist, Keren Landman, explains the end of the public health emergency.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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