unpardonably late

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The information was actually pretty late to get out there at all, and then the CDC took two weeks before someone hit them over the head and MADE them understand.

[For context, just a taste of the level of seriousness when public health agencies blow it.... Where were the CDC and WHO on public awareness of this pandemic? It's huge and twenty years later people still mostly only know it's a scary kind of hepatitis. Most doctors don't know how to proceed with seropositive patients. Most people have no clue how it's transmitted. Luckily blood banks and tattoo parlors and dentists and hospitals all know about how to sterilize against it -- way harder than for HIV -- but public education on it is abysmal. I can understand them not picking up on it for so long, until it had already spread all over the world, but when patients have to go get crazy-fast educations and tell their doctors what to do about positive test results twenty years after it was identified, something is wrong. Some 200 million people have HCV. I think that's more than ten times how many have HIV. So I'm really wondering if we shouldn't be giving these Veratect guys medals for hitting those bozos over the head with it this time.]