Sen. Collins to CDC Director: ‘I Always Considered the CDC To Be the Gold Standard, I Don’t Anymore’

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COLLINS: "Thank you. Dr. Walensky, I used to have the utmost respect for the guidance from the CDC. I always considered the CDC to be the gold standard. I don’t anymore. And I want to give you three examples where I think the conflicting, confusing guidance from your agency has undermined public confidence and contradicts the scientific guidance of many experts. The first has to do with school openings, an issue we talked about before. 'The New York Post' reported that a powerful teachers union, the AFT, successfully secured changes, verbatim, in draft guidance on school reopenings. This came about because of an outside group that did a FOIA request, that revealed extensive interactions between the AFT and the CDC. This has been described by Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor who has written extensively about the Coronavirus, as 'Very, very troubling.'”