The CDC fumbled its communication with public health officials and underestimated the threat of the coronavirus even as it gained a foothold in the United States, according to hundreds of pages of documents ProPublica obtained.
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Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus
By ProPublica
| March 26, 2020
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