. Don Moynihan: "The longer the pandemic goes on, the more trust will decline in institutions that have to make visible, salient decisions amidst changing circumstances, information and trade-offs while serving a population with wildly varying preferences."

Be that as it may, ever since Day One every single communication about COVID-19 from the CDC seems to have been bumbling and obtuse, sometimes self-contradictory or in conflict with NIH or FDA, and always barely intelligible .