Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Time of Pandemic | RealClearPolitics
As the coronavirus spreads and the Centers for Disease Control work around-the-clock to mitigate the disaster, it s easy to see why we need competent government agencies. We don t always get them. The CDC and National Institutes of Health botched their initial response to the virus and we are all paying the price. They distributed unreliable test kits and, incredibly, prevented top research hospitals from developing their own tests. They failed to plan for the now-predictable spike in demand for respirators, ventilators, and beds in intensive-care units. Only now are tests becoming widely available, long after the disease has spread. Ugh.
Ugh is an understatement.