New CDC Director Seeks to Turn the Page on Past Agency Mistakes

Nov. 30, 2023, 10:25 PM UTC

This year’s winter cold and flu season offers the nation’s premier public health agency the chance to regain the public’s trust, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told lawmakers.

Mandy Cohen, facing House members Thursday for the first time since becoming CDC director, noted the importance of fully funding her agency to enable it to take on effectively the sweeping reorganization that started under her predecessor.

“We’re in unprecedented times with more health threats, whether those threats come from a lab or an animal or from a weapon, we need to be ready,” Cohen told ...

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