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I'm a public health researcher, and I'm dismayed that the CDC's missteps are causing people to lose trust in a great institution

  • Written by Catherine Lynne Troisi, Associate Professor of Management, Policy, and Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
imageWorkers on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020 removed the main sign to the visitors' entrance to the CDC, leaving instead a temporary one made of cardboard-like material.Lynne Anderson, CC BY-SA

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been the premier U.S. public health agency since its founding on July 1, 1946.

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