The headline seems at odds with this line from the body of the article: "But by 2020, the Trump administration had disbanded the pandemic response unit and these doctors were forced to go rogue."
I was waiting for past examples of politicization of the CDC, but nothing really concrete was given. I do remember us dealing with a SARS variant during Obama’s admin, and that was seemingly handled scientifically. To hand-wave away the Trump admins effect on several government offices as just “missing the bigger picture” needs some proof, imo.