I read this headline and all I could think of was George Orwell’s classic “1984.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. We have probably heard about it and felt its influence on American life more during the COVID-19 pandemic than at any other time in our lives. It has garnered an inordinate amount of deference from federal and state government officials, and from a large swath of the public…