What were your goals when you were appointed and what in your view are the obstacles to the CDC acting decisively to cope with outbreaks? Yeah, so I'll sort of break that down in a couple of ways. When I was asked to step in as the acting [CDC director] to stabilize an organization that was still a little unbalanced just coming out of the COVID era. And then of course they had the five ongoing outbreaks at the time and there was a lot of uncertainty about, you know, how would this organization be able to continue and advance, you know, as, as it transitioned through, through into the new administration. (24:25–24:40)
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