U.S. minimizes CDC's role in COVID-19 response: The Lancet

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the flagship agency for the nation's public health, has seen its role minimized and become an ineffective and nominal adviser in the response to contain the spread of the coronavirus, The Lancet wrote in an article published on Friday. 

The medical journal attributed the inconsistent and incoherent national response to the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. partly to the strained relationship between the federal government and the CDC as the pandemic continues to worsen in the country.

The CDC, once regarded as the gold standard for global disease detection and control, used to be a national pillar of public health and globally respected following its founding in 1946.

However, funding to the CDC for a long time has been subject to conservative politics that have increasingly eroded the agency's ability to mount effective, evidence-based public health responses, according to the article.

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