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发帖数: 1709 | 1 How science finally caught up with Trump's playbook – with millions of
lives at stake
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/trump-coronavirus-science-analysis |
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发帖数: 1709 | 2 Already by 6 March the absence of effective diagnostic testing – caused in
part by the CDC’s botched rollout of its own Covid-19 test – was severely
hampering efforts to track the spread of the disease in the hope of
containing it before it overwhelmed the country.
“Anybody that needs a test gets a test,” Trump told the gaggle of
reporters in Atlanta. “They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.”
The tests were not beautiful, they were critically flawed. Anybody who
needed them was not getting them. |
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发帖数: 1709 | 3 You can have the best system in the world, but if you give the virus an
eight-week head start it will eat you alive
--Jeremy Konyndyk |
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发帖数: 1709 | 4 It is a catastrophe that many scientists and public health emergency experts
believe could substantially have been averted, if only Trump had listened.
“This will be regarded as the worst public health disaster in America in a
century,” said Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine at Scripps
Research in San Diego. “The root cause of the disaster was the lack of
readiness to understand where, how and when the disease was spreading.” |
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发帖数: 1 | 5 巨巨是史上最大逗逼
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: How science finally caught up with Trump's playbook – with millions of
: lives at stake
: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/trump-coronavirus-science-analysis
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发帖数: 1709 | 6 “When we first heard about coronavirus, I and several of my colleagues
worried that Trump would not attend to scientific advice. This is a man who
has exhibited a reckless disregard for scientific evidence over climate
change; if he could do that, there was always the question of whether he
would take seriously any science.” |
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发帖数: 1709 | 7 ‘Scientists knew the risk – urgent action was needed’
When coronavirus reared its ugly head, there was plenty of early warning.
Alex Azar, the health and human services secretary, became aware of the
outbreak of a virus in China as early as 3 January.
By 5 January scientists in Shanghai had obtained a complete viral genome
from an infected patient and reported it immediately to GenBank, the genetic
sequencing database of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). By early
February, scientists were aware that Covid-19 was both easily transmitted
between individuals and had a relatively high fatality rate, especially for
older and vulnerable people. |
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发帖数: 1709 | 8 With the full might of the US scientific community at his disposal, Trump
appointed individuals not known for their prowess with pandemics in charge
of the federal response. The coronavirus taskforce was to be led by the vice
-president, Mike Pence, who has been widely criticized for his handling of a
2015 HIV outbreak when governor of Indiana. |
