Agreed, there should be a stack of heads in front of the CDC headquarters

Won't happen, but at least some people should be fired(I know, they're .gov employees, fat chance).
And just think, these are some of the people who'd be controlling your government-run health care.
It should have been obvious to CDC that regular e-cigarettes were not and could not have been causing these illnesses. Commercial nicotine e-cigarettes have been on the American and European markets for more than a decade and are used by tens of millions of people. 

In Europe, there is no such outbreak of vaping-related illnesses, nor is there one in Canada. According to the Deputy Director of CDC Anne Schuchat, the agency doesn't believe these illnesses were occurring in previous years but being underreported. Instead, on October 25, Schuchat told journalists on a telebriefing, "we think something riskier is in much more frequent use." 

Instead of conducting a reasonable investigation and giving consumers useful advice, CDC has been deliberately ambiguous and helped spark a national panic.
Ambiguous and ambitious: "We need to be in control of this(and everything else) for the good of the people!"