At year’s end, time to ask: Why did the CDC ignore vaping evidence?
If 2019 was the year of the vaping health crisis, 2020 will be a year of reckoning. The first question that must be asked is this: Why did American public health officials fail so spectacularly?
HIGHLIGHTS
- Evidence surfaced in August of 2019 with 192 cases of lung disease identified, and one death, linked to vaping.
- The cause seems to be the introduction of vitamin E oil specifically into illicit THC vape cartridges.
- Nearly all of the VAPI cases emerged from patients who vaped illicit THC cartridges.
