BOSTON — It’s getting harder to trust guidance coming out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, creating an opening for physician groups to step up and fill the void, two former top agency officials said on Wednesday.
Speaking at the STAT Summit, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and Dan Jernigan, the former director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, stopped short of saying they no longer trust the CDC. They said some information, like that on maternal health, foodborne illnesses, and international travel, appears to remain reliable.
The remarks from Walensky and Jernigan point to the ongoing fracturing and loss of trust in the public health infrastructure in the U.S. Already, several independent efforts to evaluate and recommend vaccines have cropped up, and a group of Democratic governors are forming their own public health group.
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