| Not surprisingly, the CDC has lost some confidence of the American people over its lack of responsiveness to the need for guidance in dealing with Ebola patients in the U.S., as well as perhaps CDC Director, Frieden's misstatements about the risk of Ebola, and remarks colored with criticism of anyone other than CDC. Lack of Presidential leadership on the Ebola crisis has hindered CDC's response, and that is unfortunate for everyone, including the American people. Gallop's headlines, just out read as follows: |
Americans' Ratings of CDC Down After Ebola Crisis |
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Americans'
ratings of the job the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, is doing are down
significantly from last year, whereas ratings of other key government agencies
measured both years are the same or better.
. . . .In May 2013, 71% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans said the CDC was doing an excellent or good job. Since then, Democrats' ratings have fallen eight percentage points to 63% while Republicans have dropped 25 points to 40%.
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
CDC's ratings by Americans fell 10% since last year
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Although I do not believe the CDC did a great job in guiding American hospitals and doctors on how to deal with Ebola, I think the problem can be fixed. Prior to the Ebola scare, our hospitals did not receive information or training on how to deal with infectious diseases that we don't know how to cure or control. I believe the simple solution to this problem is to provide that training. Although it should not take up weeks or months of a doctor or nurse's work schedule, they do need to know what protective equipment to wear, how to wear it, and the protocol behind handling a patient with this type of sickness.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the ratings for CDC are down, I believe that they can take the negative feedback to improve on several areas such as the training mentioned by Alyssa. CDC can learn from its mistakes and develop better policies that can prevent the type of mishaps that happened in Dallas. I hope that Frieden, the CDC director, learned to not make overly optimistic statements such as stating that every hospital in America can safely take care of an Ebola patient.
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ReplyDeleteCDC should pay more attention to specific safety measures that CDC is implementing to stop Ebola outbreaks instead of making a general statement, which falsely ensuring the public from Ebola outbreak. I hope CDC learned the know-how to deal with this kind of outbreaks in the future. The public has right to know the accurate information to prepare virus outbreaks.
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