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Partisanship & lack of consistent data hurt US COVID-19 response:  Dr. Tom Frieden

Partisanship & Lack of Consistent Data Hurt US COVID-19 Response | Dr. Tom Frieden | GZERO World

"First off you have to say, it's not just one epidemic. There are many outbreaks. All epidemiology is local, just like politics," former CDC director Dr. Frieden told Ian Bremmer. He expressed concerns that, although COVID-19 is relatively under control in the Northeast, outbreaks continue to rage across the South and Southwest. The real failure, Frieden argues, is at the federal level where nearly six months into a pandemic Washington still lacks the data required to understand the virus' spread, let alone control it.

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