{"id":540,"date":"2020-08-22T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=540"},"modified":"2020-08-22T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:30:39","slug":"the-cdc-is-an-apolitical-island-thats-left-it-defenseless-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/the-cdc-is-an-apolitical-island-thats-left-it-defenseless-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The CDC is an apolitical island. That&#8217;s left it defenseless against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country\u2019s top public health agency, is being kicked around by the White House. And it doesn\u2019t have much power to kick back.<\/p>\n<p>As President Trump spars with nearly all of the federal agencies that have a hand in his administration\u2019s much-maligned response to the coronavirus pandemic, he\u2019s been particularly successful at sidelining the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s good reason. The CDC, far more than other agencies, struggles with a slew of structural and cultural issues that have left the agency ill-equipped to fend off political attacks, or even to build up the political capital that could have helped it navigate the stark spotlight it finds itself in now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/07\/13\/cdc-apolitical-island-defenseless\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>The CDC is an apolitical island. That&#8217;s left it defenseless against Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country\u2019s top public health agency, is being kicked around by the White House. And it doesn\u2019t have much power to kick back. As President Trump spars with nearly all of the federal agencies that have a hand in his administration\u2019s much-maligned response to the coronavirus pandemic, he\u2019s &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/the-cdc-is-an-apolitical-island-thats-left-it-defenseless-against-trump\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}