Where CDC, FDA and the States Stand After a Week. The Federal Cyclospora Numbers Are Finally Catching Up to the States, and CDC Has Quietly Moved the Outbreak’s First Illness Back to June 14.

A week ago, the three levels of government running this outbreak published three different numbers, and every one of them was six weeks behind the illnesses. That has not changed and it is not going to. What changed this week is the direction of travel. The federal counts finally started closing ground on the state counts, on one measure they passed them, and CDC moved a date that I have not seen…