How tragic that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in so many ways heroic in the fight against COVID-19, has fallen victim to a strain of “Potomac Fever.” It’s using its efforts to combat COVID-19 to exercise economic regulatory policy well beyond its authority.

Take, for example, the CDC’s expansion of a moratorium on residential evictions that started as a temporary measure at the beginning of the pandemic.

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