the CDC was hamstrung by Trump and by Republican governors like DeSantis, and because some doctors refused to ascribe the cause of death to covid19.
Typical Republican behavior, break something and then complain that the thing doesn't work.

Edit: And yet, due to amazing work by scientists from several fields, the data for the covid pandemic was light years ahead of anything previously possible.

Dr Ladapo was especially chosen by DeSantis. He is the one who just last week removed the requirements for school children's vaccinations, leaving the state to become a Petri dish.
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/ron-desantis-florida-eliminate-childhood-vaccine-mandates/

The short video at the top of the link is worth watching to hear the hootin' and the hollerin' of the Florida guinea pigs.

Now, since we're stuck with RFK Jr. we realize how that could happen. Thanks so much for the link! Good Grief! "An intrusion into people's lives?!" What about the rights of these unvaccinated kids' classmates?? Now we know that what were regarded as "childhood diseases" could be fatal for some. To me that sounds like the ultimate "intrusion." And I can remember as a kid, getting inoculations right in school.

given out on sugar cubes in school. My Mother was so happy that we had the opportunity. She had had a dear friend who had died from polio in México.

And I remember the upset people in the mid 80's when seat belts were made mandatory in Texas. It's the very people who most resent the nanny state who need it the most.

Who would reject that opportunity??

And I also remember the time before seat belts. Once I was riding with my Dad, standing in the back seat! And when he stopped fast to avoid a dog in the road, I ended up on the floor under the dashboard. I was a preschooler and thought it was a big adventure and didn't understand why my parents didn't feel the same way...