Authors
Pederson, ThoruUMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyDocument Type
EditorialPublication Date
2021-02-05Keywords
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCDC
SARS-Cov-2 pandemic
COVID-19
aerosol transmission
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Infectious Disease
Virus Diseases
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During the American sector of the coronavirus pandemic there have been missteps and yet other successes. Two of the vaccines came from basic research on doping cells with synthetic messenger RNA, pioneered in part in US labs. The pandemic mobilized not only US scientific talent but also the government, as appropriate. At the federal level, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stood tall from the start. Another federal agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (known as the CDC), has been traditionally as esteemed by the health and biomedical professions as the NIH, and it played a major role in the country's response to the pandemic. Here I wish to recall for us how the CDC came to be, recognize its catalytic inaugural scientist, and comment on a recent issue.Source
Pederson T. Remembering and admiring the CDC. FASEB J. 2021 Feb;35(2):e21372. doi: 10.1096/fj.202002816. Erratum in: FASEB J. 2021 Jul;35(7):e21634. PMID: 33544451. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1096/fj.202002816Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/27457PubMed ID
33544451Related Resources
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10.1096/fj.202002816