I mean we all saw it play out with covid, somebody figured out we had people with potential exposure already in the United States; they immediately contacted the CDC expecting them to take charge, or give guidance, or "send a team." And then nothing happened - for days. Fortunately our public health department was willing to dust off some laws that were probably written for tuberculosis and scarlet fever, immediately put the family in isolation, bleached everything they had ever touched, hospitalized the main patient, and monitored the hospital staff to make absolutely sure any contamination was detected immediately. We were also lucky that it was a fairly weak version of ebola compared to the other strains.

After all the heavy lifting was done, some insufferable nerd finally came in from Atlanta and just ragged on everything we did. Which was, you know, handle it quickly and efficiently, and most important, EFFECTIVELY. I heard that guy went on to publish several papers on his success.

But yeah this was during the Obama administration, Mr Healthcare himself and the CDC was already gutted and politicized. Public health infrastructure was dismantled decades ago, I couldn't even guess as to when other than reflexively blame Reagan.