Carolla: Union pressure forced Rochelle Walensky to walk back school reopening comments
“At some point, Rochelle Walensky of the CDC announces they should open schools, but that gets shut down. Really quickly by the school unions. And then she announces that she was not speaking officially. That was just sort of her opinion off the record.”
Calacanis: RFK Jr. withdrew federal mRNA funding and altered CDC guidelines
“RFK withdrew federal funding for MRNA vaccine development, and he removed the COVID vaccine from the CDC recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women.”
Josh Muccio: CDC data shows 60% of obese US children live above poverty
“The CDC reports that about 60% of obese children in the U.S. Live above the poverty level.”
Kushner: US government was unprepared for COVID-19, CDC made testing errors
“We were faced at a situation where the government was just very unprepared for what was occurring, and there'd been a lot of mistakes done by the CDC with the testing”
Arison: Grindr shipped 500k CDC home HIV tests, 30% first-timers
“A year and a half ago, we started working with the CDC to allow people to order an HIV test to be shipped to their home to get an HIV test. We've sent out about half a million tests since then, which is really incredible. And more importantly, 30% of people wh…”
Arison: Grindr generates no revenue from HIV tests or PrEP
“We don't make money on on HIV tests cause CDC actually sends those to people for free. And we don't make money on prep cause we don't sell prep. There are companies that do sell prep. We just do education and marketing plan.”
Friedberg: CDC reports 74% of Americans are overweight or obese
“According to the CDC, 74% of Americans are now overweight or clinically obese.”
EVALI lung injuries were caused by illicit cannabis vapes, not Juul
“There was this thing called EVALI, the e-cigarette and vapor acute lung injury, like fiasco. It was identified by the CDC. And I mean, people died, like there were multiple people that, that, that actually died. And everyone thought it was because of Juul. It …”
CDC Research Shows Normalizing Suicide Discussions Increases Youth Suicide
“The CDC has great research on this, which is that if you present, if you normalize suicide with kids, if you present it as a means of coping with distress, you know, basically telegraphing, this is something other kids are doing. When they feel sad, you consta…”
CDC Finds One in Six Young American Children Have Mental Diagnoses
“In 2016, the CDC came out with a report that one in six American children between the ages of two and eight had a mental health or behavioral diagnosis.”
Gallagher: Illegal Reedley biolab held Ebola, HIV, and tuberculosis samples
“Eventually it was discovered that these vials contained Ebola HIV, tuberculosis. There was a freezer labeled Ebola. It was like these silver Ziplocs inside and the CDC wouldn't test it, which is crazy.”
Sudhakar: Farmers selling to BigBasket earn 6–7% more within two days
“So one we get almost six to seven percent more than what we would have got otherwise. And we get our money in two days and without follow up.”
Kelly: Ginkgo runs pathogen wastewater monitoring in US, Qatar, and Ukraine
“One of the things we're doing is, like, with the CDC, we run programs where we collect wastewater from inbound airplanes, and we sequence the DNA, and we look for pathogens, we look, we monitor variants and all this, both for flu and COVID, and I can add other…”
CDC mask guidance drove Etsy traffic to Black Friday levels overnight
“When the CDC mandated face masks in
I think it was early April, 20, 20.
That's when essentially we went to sleep one day with our typical April traffic, typical April sales, and then it was Black Friday overnight.”
Biobot monitors wastewater in over 400 US communities for the CDC
“Through our work with the CDC, we're working in over 400 communities across the country.”
Pasricha: US suicide rate is 14 per 100k, double the murder rate
“The CDC is now saying that suicide rates are around 14 per a 100,000. Just to compare, murder rates are around six per a 100,000, so we are two to three times more dangerous to ourselves than anybody else is to us.”
Pasricha: CDC reports US suicide rates are highest since WWII
“The CDC says they have not seen murder, not murder rates, suicide rates this high since World War II.”
Supreme Court kept major questions scope consistent with FDA and CDC precedents
“That interpretation is very similar to what we saw with other recent cases. So can FDA regulate tobacco, or can CDC, for example, issue an eviction moratorium? And so we aren't seeing the court come out and broaden the scope of how it's looking at major questi…”
Urban: Avoidable chronic disease accounts for 75% of US healthcare spend
“According to the CDC, for whatever that's worth to you, avoidable chronic disease accounts for 75% of our health care spend”
Sacks: Bongino was banned for criticizing cloth masks weeks before CDC did
“He was kicked off YouTube for saying cloth masks don't work. Then the CDC comes out two weeks later and says the same thing.”
Chamath Palihapitiya claims the CDC is controlled by big business interests
“The CDC ultimately really is just in the hands of big business.”
Rushkoff: CDC and Fauci communicate for patient compliance, not pure accuracy
“The CDC is not thinking in terms of giving the public accurate information. The CDC is like, Our doctor trying to tell us the things that they need to tell us to get us to take our medicine. And that's different than journalism. You know, when I look at Fauci,…”
Sacks claims actual outdoor COVID transmission rate is under one percent
“The CDC continues to suggest that outdoor transmission accounts for up to 10% of cases when the real number is certainly under one percent is probably under .1%.”
Sacks: CDC accepted all teachers' union suggestions on school reopening guidelines
“So, this guidance that the CDC put forward on school reopenings, the teachers unions were part of writing that guidance, and all of their suggestions were actually accepted and incorporated by the CDC.”
Sacks: Vaccinated Americans are more likely to be struck by lightning
“So, out of eighty-seven million people who've been vaccinated, there have only been 408 serious cases, which would be, you'd count as hospitalization or death, Related to COVID. So those are odds of one in 213,000. The odds of being hit by lightning are one in…”
Sacks: Public health agency responses amount to malpractice and negligence
“But if by health system, we mean the FDA, the CDC the WHO, which is part of the U S system, but we do rely on them to some extent. You've just seen, I think, you know, amazing really malpractice or negligence. If they were a pharma company, I think they'd be s…”
Sacks: CDC published blatantly untrue guidance on masks and social distancing
“You have to, you know, you have on the CDC website things that, I haven't checked it today, but as of a few days ago are just blatantly not true. I mean, saying that you only needed a mask if you were actually taking care of a person with COVID-nineteen, that …”
Chamath: Trump's early COVID-19 messaging degraded CDC, HHS, and media responses
“Trump had to draw a line in the sand, which is, I'm not going to threaten my presidency, and so he had to downplay it, and he had to sort of, you know puff up his chest a little bit, and that kind of rhetoric from the president of the United States, whether yo…”
CDC's early COVID-19 PCR test failed due to bugs across three loci
“The actual CDC test looks at this, not just for one locus, but for three loci, meaning three different spots on the virus's genome. One of those spots, I believe, is for all coronavirus, and two loci are specific to this SARS-CoV-CoV-II virus, the virus that c…”
The CDC was bottlenecked to running only 12 coronavirus tests per day
“CDC itself was doing 12 tests a day, and that basically meant, you know, for a country of three hundred million people that's testing 12 a day, that's a centralized bottleneck.”
Abernethy: FDA maintains an international bacterial genomic database to trace outbreaks
“And one of the things the FDA does in concert with CDC and now really through international database is have, is maintain a database of all the different genomes so that we can also track back and do this more quickly.”
Zeevi: Four out of ten U.S. adults are obese
“Right now, four out of 10 U.S. Adults are obese.”