Ben Shapiro Warns CDC Has A Bigger Motive Behind Its ‘Shake-Up’

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro warned Americans Friday that the Centers for Disease Control‘s (CDC) announcement of a “shake-up” really just means the agency wants more power.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted earlier this week that her department made mistakes in its response to the COVID pandemic and then called for a “reset” that would include staffing changes and faster data releases, the Associated Press reported.

Shapiro wasn’t buying that the CDC was serious about taking steps toward meaningful change. “If you actually wanted to shake-up the CDC, what you would do is use a little bit of epistemic humility. You’d actually look at their system and say, okay, what if we shrank what it is that we say that we can do?” he told his listeners on “The Ben Shapiro Show.”

“But that’s not what the CDC is doing,” Shapiro explained. “Their argument is they need more power. Their big mistake is that they weren’t forceful enough during the last pandemic. So when they say shake-up, what they mean is give us more power.”

Walensky told CBS News that her agency needs to learn from the lessons of the pandemic and “do better.” Among the suggested steps for a CDC shake-up was creating a “new office to promote equity in healthcare” and developing a “more nimble workforce that can quickly respond to public health crises.”