For the New CDC Director, Damage Control Would Be a Big Win

Through little fault of her own, the nation’s new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention starts her job with low expectations. It’s not just her boss’s antipathy for the agency, which he has called a “cesspool of corruption.” Within days of Erica Schwartz’s confirmation as director, the president issued an executive order seeking to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule — with no new supporting evidence.