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I'm currently working on a required CDC (Center for Disease Control) reporting function for a COVID test. For a second I thought this article was going to be extremely helpful.
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> USB communications device class (or USB CDC class) is a composite Universal Serial Bus device class.

I may add this (and it fits somewhat nicely with file transfer..)

That's what my mind also went to first upon seeing the title.
I thought Cult of the Dead Cow was back.
The first computer I used professionaly was a Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600. For a second I thought I could use this to transfer some of my old files.
I have nothing to do with the CDC and am from another continent but had the same confusion. Not be enough TLAs are available it seems!
A new CDC (Change Data Capture) approach open-sourced by Google? Quickly I, a subsequently disappointed data engineer, started reading
I similarly assumed something was coming out from BigQuery