Liz’s Reviews > The Premonition: A Pandemic Story > Status Update

The Trump Administration would claim with fanfare that supplies were on their way to the states and leave it to the career civil servants whose job was to interact with State officials to reap the humiliation when those supplies failed to arrive... Among other consequences of the White House's strategy was that it gutted The credibility of the career Federal officials.

In theory, the CDC sat atop the system of infectious disease management in the US. In practice, the system had configured itself to foist the political risk onto a character who had no social power. It required a local Health officer to take the risk and responsibility, as no one else wanted to... people were far less likely to blame a health officer for what she didn't do and what she did.