Suddenly, there's an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions,' an anonymous NIH scientist told Common Sense.

Major decisions made by the agencies that hurt morale included support for masking in schools, school closures during the pandemic and the authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children four and under.īoth agencies, along with the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) have been mired in controversy throughout the pandemic for inconsistent messaging and for decision-making that didn't seem to line up with available science. Marty Makary, a top public-health expert at Johns Hopkins University, writes at Common Sense, the Substack run by former New York Times columnist, Bari Weiss. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are both suffering staff shortages, according to Dr. Marty Makary (pictured), a public health expert from Johns Hopkins University, is a critic of both school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic and in vaccines for children aged four and younger On July 13, Fauci flip-flopped again, recommending that masks still be work in indoor public gatherings while telling Americans they shouldn't let the BA.5 COVID-19 variant 'disrupt our lives.'ĭr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly warned that lifting mask mandates from children was 'risky,' while simultaneously saying it was time to return back to normal. When schools did reopen, many required children to remain masked at all times outside of lunch periods, following guidance from the CDC.ĬOVID tsar Dr. While individual school districts were allowed to make decisions for themselves - and many Republican leaning counties did quickly reopen schools - many major metropolitan areas under Democratic control kept schools closed for extended periods of time. Initial data showed children suffered limited risk when they contracted the virus, though, and that it was mainly the elderly and severely immunocompromised that bore the virus's burden.ĭespite the evidence, the CDC still recommended schools stay closed until the end of the 2019-2020 school year. When the virus stormed the world in 2020, many officials immediately shut things down - schools, retail stores, entertainment venues, restaurants - out of an fear of the unknown. Schools became a battleground of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. The CDC and NIH are facing staffing issues after low morale and poor decision-making from leadership led to many leaving the agencies, Common Sense reports

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