This NYTimes Magazine article might be interesting. Its framing is basically “why did the CDC fail, and how can it do better next time?”.
It mentions some other groups that allegedly did better than the CDC. Though I don’t know to what extent these groups were or were not EA-funded. E.g., it says:
The Covid Rapid Response Working Group, at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, was one of several independent organizations that stepped in to help fill the gap. In the last year, these groups, run mostly out of academic centers and private foundations, have transformed reams of raw data — on transmission rates and hospitalization rates and death tolls — into actionable intelligence. They have created county-by-county risk-assessment tools, devised national testing strategies and mapped out national contact-tracing programs. In many if not most cases, they have moved faster than the C.D.C., painting a more accurate picture of the pandemic as it unfolded and offering more feasible solutions to the challenges that state and community leaders were facing.
This NYTimes Magazine article might be interesting. Its framing is basically “why did the CDC fail, and how can it do better next time?”.
It mentions some other groups that allegedly did better than the CDC. Though I don’t know to what extent these groups were or were not EA-funded. E.g., it says: