How the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, the nation’s “medical CIA,” has failed the American people.

In November, 2020, medical authorities in India identified the Delta variant of COVID-19, which swept through that country and the UK before arriving in the United States, "Where it quickly surged." On December 12, 2019, according to the CDC, "a cluster of patients in Wuhan, Hubei Providence, China begin to experience shortness of breath and fever." On January 17, 2020, the CDC deployed a team to Washington State in response to the first reported COVID-19 case in the United States.

The CDC deploys the EIS, as Diana Robeletto Scalera of the CDC Foundation explains, "To ensure epidemics in other countries do not hit American soil." EIS disease detectives are "Are the ones responsible and they take this role very seriously." The EIS had boots on the ground in China, but the disease detectives failed to stop the virus that causes COVID-19 from showing up in America.

As UC Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg noted in Inventing the AIDS Virus, the EIS came to be known as the nation's "Medical CIA." EIS vets have worked in the CDC other federal agencies, international bodies such as the World Health Organization, and they are also embedded in the media.

As Duesberg learned, EIS members "Constitute an informal surveillance network," and can "Act as unrecognized advocates for the CDC viewpoint, whether as media journalists or as prominent physicians." Prominent physician Dr. Nancy Messonnier began her public health career in 1995 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service "Officer." The University of Chicago medical school grad rose through the ranks to direct the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

In a CDC telebriefing on January 17, 2020, Dr. Messonnier mentioned "The outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan City, China, which has been identified as being caused by a novel coronavirus." It was "a serious situation," and the CDC official cautioned about travel to and from Wuhan.

In May 2020, CDC director Dr. Rachel Walensky hailed Dr. Messonnier as a "True hero" but failed to explain why the EIS veteran suddenly resigned from the CDC. Messonnier moved on to the Skoll Foundation, leaving behind questions about what she knew and when she knew it.

As the CDC explains, "In 2009, a new H1N1 influenza virus emerged, causing the first global flu pandemic in 40 years." From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, the CDC estimated "60.8 million cases, 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths in the United States due to thepdm09 virus." If any EIS official took responsibility, nothing has publicly emerged.

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