Title
Remembering and admiring the CDC
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2021-02-05
Document Type
Editorial
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Infectious Disease | Virus Diseases
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, COVID-19, aerosol transmission
DOI of Published Version
10.1096/fj.202002816
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
Journal/Book/Conference Title
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Related Resources
PubMed ID
33544451
Repository Citation
Pederson T. (2021). Remembering and admiring the CDC. COVID-19 Publications by UMass Chan Authors. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202002816. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/covid19/258