Shutdown Endangers Essential Disease Research

Not all effects of the government shutdown are immediate. The Centers for Disease Control sent home 68% of its workers this week.

Without access to CDC labs to identify which strains of the virus are circulating, new mutations could be missed. “This affects our capacity to see if the virus is mutating or whether we have unanticipated strains out there,” says William Schaffner at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, a former president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.