New C.D.C. Director Seeks to Foster Trust in a Battered Agency

Dr. Mandy K. Cohen dropped by Dallas in November, just days after the governor of Texas signed a law barring private employers from requiring COVID-19 shots. If she thought promoting vaccination would be a tough sell in a ruby-red state, Dr. Cohen, the new director of the CDC did not give any indication.

Dr. Cohen pursues a task that some public health experts fear is impossible: restoring Americans’ faith in public health, and in her battered agency. Five months into her tenure, with the COVID public health emergency officially over, the CDC’s new leader is relentlessly on message. Read the full story by The New York Times here.