The CDC has been out to lunch through the entire pandemic. Literally!!!
I know for fact that many at the CDC were extreme anti Trumpers when he was POTUS. Now, under their new director, they took a step into the Twilight Zone for incompetence. I also know a number of top folks at the CDC have left. They either retired or just left in disgust. The current director, perhaps more than anyone involved with government, looks like the deer in the headlights every time she is interviewed. Utterly clueless, I do not care how many letters she has after her name.
The one thing emerging from this pandemic I know for absolute certain is that we need to have regular, unscheduled visits/inspections by federal folks for all nursing homes. We have feds inspecting meat, but we do not have anyone paying attention to what is happening to seniors in nursing homes. Their care is criminal, and part of the reason so many of them have died with this pandemic. Elected officials like the Cuomos of the world see them fully expendable. Cuomo and several other Dem governors committed genocide from my view. Just no excuse for their decisions that killed thousands unnecessarily, particularly after the nursing home deaths in the state of Washington when the pandemic kicked off.