| | Its annual budget reflects political pressure and interests of the [[drug|pharmaceutical]] industry rather than the incidence of [[disease]] and [[health]] problems among [[American]]s. There have been frequent complaints of conflicts of interest by officials at the CDC. The CDC has made many high-profile mistakes in recommending [[vaccine]]s wanted by the pharmaceutical industry, such as the [[Lyme disease]] vaccine, the [[rotavirus]] vaccine and the [[swine flu]] vaccine, all of which were later pulled from the market. | | Its annual budget reflects political pressure and interests of the [[drug|pharmaceutical]] industry rather than the incidence of [[disease]] and [[health]] problems among [[American]]s. There have been frequent complaints of conflicts of interest by officials at the CDC. The CDC has made many high-profile mistakes in recommending [[vaccine]]s wanted by the pharmaceutical industry, such as the [[Lyme disease]] vaccine, the [[rotavirus]] vaccine and the [[swine flu]] vaccine, all of which were later pulled from the market. |
| − | In mishandling the [[coronavirus]] crisis, the totalitarian CDC insisted on using its own defective testing rather than allow superior private testing to be done, which would have helped minimized the spread of the disease at a crucial time. In addition, on April 13, 2020, Dr. Annie Bukachek, citing a memo from the CDC dated March 24th, indicated that the CDC deliberately overcounted deaths caused by COVID-19 by telling doctors to count anyone who had COVID-19 in their system at the time of death as a COVID-19 death, regardless of the actual cause of death.<ref>https://canadafreepress.com/article-ng/the-cdc-confesses-to-lying-about-covid-19-death-numbers</ref> Even worse, leaked emails revealed that the CDC's policy regarding school systems was influenced more by the American Federation of Teachers more than in science.<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/05/02/emails-reveal-the-aft-influenced-the-final-cdc-guidance-regarding-schools-reopening-n372925</ref> | + | In mishandling the [[coronavirus]] crisis, the totalitarian CDC insisted on using its own defective testing rather than allow superior private testing to be done, which would have helped minimized the spread of the disease at a crucial time. In addition, on April 13, 2020, Dr. Annie Bukachek, citing a memo from the CDC dated March 24th,<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf</ref> indicated that the CDC deliberately overcounted deaths caused by COVID-19 by telling doctors to count anyone who had COVID-19 in their system at the time of death as a COVID-19 death, regardless of the actual cause of death.<ref>https://canadafreepress.com/article-ng/the-cdc-confesses-to-lying-about-covid-19-death-numbers</ref> Even worse, leaked emails revealed that the CDC's policy regarding school systems was influenced more by the American Federation of Teachers more than in science.<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/05/02/emails-reveal-the-aft-influenced-the-final-cdc-guidance-regarding-schools-reopening-n372925</ref> |
| | Founded in 1946, the CDC is based in [[Atlanta]].<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/</ref> Atlanta was chosen as its first act was to handle the growing malaria problem; Atlanta was located in the center of the malaria outbreak. It remained there due in large part to the work of [[Coca-Cola]] (also based in Atlanta): the CEO of the company made a deal with Emory University to sell some of its land at a highly discounted price. | | Founded in 1946, the CDC is based in [[Atlanta]].<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/</ref> Atlanta was chosen as its first act was to handle the growing malaria problem; Atlanta was located in the center of the malaria outbreak. It remained there due in large part to the work of [[Coca-Cola]] (also based in Atlanta): the CEO of the company made a deal with Emory University to sell some of its land at a highly discounted price. |