US ‘ill prepared for a global pandemic,’ outgoing CDC chief warns

US ‘ill prepared for a global pandemic,’ outgoing CDC chief warns

Years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, is the US prepared for the next pandemic? No, according to the outgoing director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “Decades of underinvestment in public health rendered ‌‌the United States ill prepared for a global pandemic,” Walensky, 54, wrote Tuesday in a New York … Read more