Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue. No need to waste funds on it. Anything less is a dangerous distraction for the CDC which really needs to focus on its core competency -- protecting the us from pathogenic threats. Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not.

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ceejayoz a day ago | parent [-]

> Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue.

So? We have more than one law enforcement agency, too.

> Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not.

Should the department of Health touch on a major health issue? Of course.

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throwawaymaths a day ago | parent [-]

CDC is not "the department of health". That would be DHHS.

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ceejayoz a day ago | parent [-]

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.”

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throwawaymaths a day ago | parent [-]

Yes that's exactly the problem. Scope has been creeping for decades. Effort reduplicated across several sub branches of DHHS

	▲	ceejayoz a day ago \| parent [-]
		I’m not sure how to explain to you that some problems are multi-factorial. Have you never needed another department’s assistance with a work task? The CDC and HUD (and EPA and DOJ and whatnot) would both be involved in lead exposure in children, for example. Different aspects of the same big problem.