It's not just funding. It's also focus. In recent years the CDC was tasked with fighting obesity and "gun violence" "epidemics" as well. Neither of those things is an epidemic. They are not contagious even. Why the fuck does the CDC waste their resources on this, instead of the real, actual epidemiological problems the eventual emergence of which is not only entirely plausible, but which have happened in practice several times already over the past couple of decades.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/...

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/index.html