It is the government equivalent of El Muskito buying Twitter and then wantonly disabling components with the assumption they do nothing.

Except no one died because Twitter malfunctions here and there.

TBF the companies that failed to contain the disease are at fault, not the agency.

You can't reasonably expect government to protect everyone from everything.

How would we know which companies to blame without organizations like the CDC?

What would they even be blamed for in the first place if there were no regulatory expectations for them to adhere to?