She also knew that it had turned itself into a black box: it sucked in data from others and seldom shared its own, except in the form of academic papers that brought glory to its authors. At this point she had a long list of the ways the CDC, with the help of their former employee and her current boss, had made it more difficult for her to do her job. Now they were trying to add to it, by interfering with the best chance California had to track the virus and limit its damage.