Quotes About CDC

There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.

For example, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have about four times the number of heart attacks per thousand compared with Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.1 This implies that the dietary habits of people in those southern states are exceedingly dangerous.

When the Washington Post asked Tom Frieden, then head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, what scared him the most, what kept him up at night, he replied, "The biggest concern is always for an influenza pandemic . . . [It] really is the worst-case scenario.

Speculative explanations of that phenomenon come down to the fact that the virus mutates rapidly, which explains why a mantra at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is "When you've seen one influenza season, you've seen one influenza season.

The CDC estimates that more than twenty-nine million Americans are living with diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes—that's about 9 percent of the U.S. population.

The CDC found that 42 percent of packaged meat products sold at three national chain grocery stores sampled contained toxin-producing C. diff bacteria.136 The United States, it turns out, has the highest reported levels of C. diff meat contamination in the world.137

The CDC defined a close contact of a person with coronavirus as someone who was "within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from 48 hours before illness onset until the time the patient is isolated." This is a somewhat arbitrary criterion, given that the virus can spread much farther than six feet.57