NYT: Guidelines part of failed response to Zika says Schaffner
Almost a year ago, the World Health Organization declared the Zika epidemic a global health emergency, calling for an epic campaign against a virus that few had ever heard of. As it spread to almost every country in the Western Hemisphere, scientists and health officials at every level of government swung into action, trying to understand how the infection caused birth defects and how it could be stopped.
C.D.C. guidance on Zika was “a little coy,” said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School.“A recommendation to put off pregnancy until the risk abated should have been front and center — and much more explicit.”