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Kristin Lyerly: “One of the most important things that the CDC does is when…”

Featuring: Kristin Lyerly, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 8

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Published | Video Starts at 06:48

Kentucky's share of the CDC budget of public health, we would lose an estimated 63 million. Wow. We're just hurting ourselves. Yeah, well, killing ourselves. Because think about it, you mentioned it. Responding to outbreaks. One of the most important things that the CDC does is when something starts to pop up, whether it's more measles or bird flu or whatever is they send people to those areas and they contain those outbreaks. If we can contain those outbreaks, they don't spread. But some things like think about measles, it is much more contagious than Covid. And we are under vaccinated here in Wisconsin. (06:48–07:02)

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Asserts that the CDC plays a crucial role in containing outbreaks by deploying personnel to affected areas.

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