Phyllis Mervine delivered the following verbal comments to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on October 27, 2020.
M y name is Phyllis Mervine. I’m the president and founder of LymeDisease.org. I want to talk about how the CDC incidence map is not working for California.
I have talked about this problem at previous meetings but you have taken no steps to correct it, so I am bringing it up again.
The CDC incidence map is contributing to more people in California catching Lyme disease and developing the chronic form. I am asking you for a simple, quick, and cost-free fix.
The CDC map downplays the incidence of Lyme disease in all but a handful of states. The map makes it more difficult for people with Lyme disease to be correctly diagnosed in states not designated “high risk” by the CDC’s restrictive counting system.
The CDC map downplays the incidence of Lyme disease in all but a handful of states.
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