I did some work with the CDC in 2014. They were organised and sensible and fantastic to work with, especially in comparison to local equivalents here in Australia.
The project I was on was on Dengue Fever and Zika and they had their shit together on that. The data was clean, well organised, delivered quickly.
Somehow between then and now that data collection side has fallen to bits to the point where efforts like the John Hopkins tracking project had to rely on the NYT open source collection on GitHub.
I don't know who is responsible for pandemic response in the US, but back then everyone at CDC seemed competent and dedicated.
It's shocking to see how badly they failed.