The CDC is a public health agency. The FDA is a regulatory body that has the authority to approve drugs under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. While the CDC controls the stock of certain rare drugs, they do not determine approval.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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