Report: CDC Officials Eager For Biden To Take The Reins

President-elect Joe Biden addresses the media about the Trump administration’s lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act on November 10, 2020 at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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After months of the Trump administration kneecapping their efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are ready for President-elect Joe Biden, according to CNN.

“This is what we’ve been waiting for is for them to send their landing team here and set up shop,” an official told CNN on Tuesday, also responding with a “yes!” when they were asked if CDC leadership was feeling more enthusiastic lately.

Agency staffers expect there to be a “rebuilding of the agency” with the new administration, according to the official.

Biden has highlighted COVID-19 as a top priority for his administration amid President Donald Trump’s disastrous handling of the pandemic, including repeated efforts to falsely play down the crisis and sow doubt on government health officials’ science-based evaluations of the virus.

“Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles our administration will face, and I will be informed by science and by experts,” Biden said as he was announcing his COVID-19 advisory panel a little over two weeks ago.

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  1. “This is what we’ve been waiting for is for them to send their landing team here and set up shop,” an official told CNN on Tuesday, also responding with a “yes!” when they were asked if CDC leadership was feeling more enthusiastic lately.

    We’re all CDC today.

  2. No doubt they’re ready for change. Just think of all us private-sector citizens who have been barely holding on for the last 4 years.

    Now think of all the good public sector workers in regular, low profile jobs who had no control over the direction of their agencies.

    How relieved they all must be.

  3. You mean do actual “disease control”?

    What a weird concept…

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