CDC Head Will Roll Out Sweeping Changes to Handle Emergencies

CDC Director to Unveil Big Changes in Effort to Restore Public Trust After a nearly yearlong review of the CDC's pandemic response, Rochelle Walensky prepares to shake up its operations and culture. Riley Griffin Bloomberg.com

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The CDC director will require all employees to be ready to deploy to combat national health crises, marking a drastic shift from a fragmented volunteer system that hampered its Covid-19 response, according to Walensky and other top CDC leadership who previewed a series of measures the agency will implement to better prepare for emergencies. Others include elimination of management layers, elevation of laboratory sciences and the possible formation of a CDC unit dedicated to coronaviruses within its immunizations and respiratory disease arm.

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