Many of the issues came from furloughed workers disrupting service in the Center for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration, he wrote. With the government functioning normally again, it remains to be seen how the impact of the shut down will linger.
“For every day the government is shut down, it’s going to take them many weeks to make up the work that’s not being done,” the article quoted Director of Food Safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest Caroline Smith DeWall as saying. “When they come back to work there’ll be a backlog of patients that should have been visited during this period that aren’t visited. Our inspection system is already pretty anemic and now it’s not even moving, now it’s totally dysfunctional.”
Of additional concern are setbacks in research and development following the shut down.
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