There will be a next time and we know we need to do better but it doesn't seem like we are taking any actions to be better.

From Farewell Questions for Rochelle Walensky by El Gato Malo

The Bad Cat was on the barricade throughout the Covid Emergency, crying out "show me the science."

The history of the CDC during covid has been, at best, a checkered one.

Given what we now know about the complete failure of covid vaccines to provide sterilizing immunity, stop infection, or stop spread as well as the fact that such issues were not even tested for in the drug trials that approved them, certain questions would seem overdue in the asking:

Just what was this “Data from the CDC today” that suggested that “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus?”

Was there, in fact, any data at all?

Or was this a completely fabricated claim used to underpin the mass rollout of a product that failed so spectacularly right out of the gates and:

Where the sorts of safety and inefficacy signals that would have pulled any other vaccine in history off the market were ignored

Where the data collection was rigged to make known adverse events difficult to find, report, and aggregate in the V-safe system by removing them from searchable database fields and placing them in free text response.

And where the mandated safety assessments were not being performed until long after problems were evident, allowing the CDC to miss the most blatant safety signal in history.

There seems to be an awfully large body of claims made by CDC that appear to have lacked foundation in fact or data. Both Dr Walensky and her predecessor Robert Redfield would seem to have a great deal to answer for here.

The whole post is worth a read.  Given that the CDC and FDA were basically wrong about virtually everything all along and in the face of questions and counter-evidence, we are well overdue for some sort of independent investigation to determine how we avoid such catastrophic next time around.  Because there will be a next time.