In the final episode of our series, America’s Public Health Experiment, Dylan, Dara, and Jerusalem discuss how the CDC and the FDA failed the American public in the early months of the pandemic. Plus, a white paper about excess deaths in the first year of Covid-19.

References: 

How the experts botched masking advice

Zeynep Tufekci on the case for masks (in March 2020)

Inside the Fall of the CDC

Can the CDC be fixed?

How the CDC failed to detect Covid early

Scott Gottlieb on CDC versus FDA turf wars

The Government Asked Us Not To Release Records From The CDC’s First Failed COVID Test. Here They Are.

Zeynep Tufekci in the Atlantic: ​​The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes

Dylan Scott on FDA approval of controversial Alzheimer's drug

White paper: Excess Deaths in the United States During the First Year of COVID-19

What happened to drug deaths in 2020

Hosts:

Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox

Jerusalem Demsas (@jerusalemdemsas), policy reporter, Vox

Dara Lind (@dlind), immigration reporter, ProPublica

Credits:

Sofi LaLonde, producer & engineer

Libby Nelson, editorial adviser

Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts

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