USA: Government policy expert’s report, “CDC Evades Accountability in Lyme Epidemic”
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Bio – Jenna Luché-Thayer’s expertise includes government transparency and accountability and the integration of marginalized groups. Luché-Thayer is informed by three decades of professional policy and grassroots experience in 40 countries. She has extensive experience in congressional relations, testimony and legislation. She has worked with governments, the United Nations, nonprofits and the corporate world and has over 65 sponsored publications. Luché-Thayer received the International Woman’s Day Award for Exemplary Dedication and Contributions to Improving the Political and Legal Status of Women (US government) and built the Highest Ranking Technical Area in Accomplishment, Innovation & Comparative Advantage for United Nations Capital Development Fund.
This is a remarkable damming report that confirms everything we have been saying. Let’s hope it gets wide circulation and brings about some corrective action in the U.S. and here in Canada where the IDSA guidelines are even more rigidly enforced. The IDSA has made a serious pandemic disappear. During Richard Nixon’s era it was determined that the CDC was expensive to run and that they would have to accept funding from industry which would be kept at arms length in trust funds. It seems that hasn’t worked very well to keep the interests of industry from directing the response to the Lyme epidemic.