Posted on 03/23/2020 2:46:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BEIJING - China’s foreign ministry says the U.S. is “completely wasting the precious time” Beijing had won in attacking the global coronavirus outbreak that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily briefing Monday that the U.S. has attempted to “discredit others and look for a scapegoat to shift its responsibilities.”
He added that the U.S. should “stop politicizing the epidemic, stop stigmatizing and defaming China and other countries.”
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The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. Hmmm....(continue reading)
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.” ( insert Emotional string-here)
Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases. As an American CDC employee, they said, Quick was in an ideal position to be the eyes and ears on the ground for the United States and other countries on the coronavirus outbreak, and might have alerted them to the growing threat weeks earlier. (Maybe, maybe not....)
No other foreign disease experts were embedded to lead the program after Quick left in July, according to the sources. Zhu said an embedded expert can often get word of outbreaks early, after forming close relationships with Chinese counterparts. (So, the rest of the world abandoned this place as well?)
Zhu and the other sources said Quick could have provided real-time information to U.S. and other officials around the world during the first weeks of the outbreak, when they said the Chinese government tamped down on the release of information and provided erroneous assessments. (Seems like China didn't want anyone to find At All)
Quick left amid a bitter U.S. trade dispute with China when she learned her federally funded post, officially known as resident adviser to the U.S. Field Epidemiology Training Program in China, would be discontinued as of September, the sources said. (She was a Protester? Don't think so – Continue reading)
In a statement to Reuters, the U.S. CDC said the elimination of the adviser position did not hinder Washington’s ability to get information and “had absolutely nothing to do with CDC not learning of cases in China earlier.”
The agency said its decision not to have a resident adviser “started well before last summer and was due to China’s excellent technical capability and maturity of the program.” (Well, I don't know that that is true)
“CDC has had a 30-year partnership with China CDC and close collaboration,” the statement said. “We had the right staff to engage China and ability to provide technical assistance were it requested.”
The CDC would not make Quick, who still works for the agency, available for comment. (What? No Way. She still works for the CDC? (Gosh, they opened the article making it sound like she quit)
One disease expert told Reuters he was skeptical that the U.S. resident adviser would have been able to get earlier or better information to the Trump administration, given the Chinese government’s suppression of information.
“In the end, based on circumstances in China, it probably wouldn’t have had made a big difference,” Scott McNabb, who was a CDC epidemiologist for 20 years and is now a research professor at Emory University. “The problem was how the Chinese handled it. What should have changed was the Chinese should have acknowledged it earlier and didn’t.”
ALERT FROM CHINA’S CDC
Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)said Friday that his agency learned of the coronavirus in early January, based on Redfield’s conversations with “Chinese colleagues.”
Redfield learned that “this looks to be a novel coronavirus” from Dr. Gao Fu, the head of the China CDC, according to an HHS administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Dr. Redfield always talked to Dr. Gao,” the official said.
HHS and CDC did not make Azar or Redfield available for comment.
Zhu and other sources said U.S. leaders should not have been relying on the China CDC director for alerts and updates. In general, they said, officials in China downplayed the severity of the outbreak in the early weeks and did not acknowledge evidence of person-to-person transmission until Jan. 20.
After the epidemic exploded and China had imposed strict quarantines, Trump administration officials complained that the Chinese had censored information about the outbreak and that the United States had been unable to get American disease experts into the country to help contain the spread.
On Feb. 25, the first day the CDC told the American public to prepare for an outbreak at home, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of mishandling the epidemic through its “censorship” of medical professionals and media.
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated since then, as Trump has labeled the coronavirus the “Chinese virus” - a description the Chinese have condemned as stigmatizing. (Yeah well, if you had been more honest and open then it would be a different matter. So, Fook Yew)
Last week, the Chinese government announced that Americans from three U.S. news organizations, The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, would be expelled from China. (Seems like “Trust” is a disposable commodity for China)
ONCE ‘FRIENDS,’ NOW RIVALS (Friends? When?)
The decision to eliminate Quick’s job came as the CDC has scaled back the number of U.S. staffers in China over the last two years, the sources told Reuters. “We had already withdrawn many technical public health experts,” the same expert said.
The CDC, however, disputed that staffing was a problem or that its information had been limited by the move. “It was not the staffing shortage that limited our ability” it said.
The U.S. CDC team in Beijing now includes three American citizens in permanent roles, an additional American who is temporary and around 10 Chinese nationals, the agency said. Of the Americans, one is an influenza expert with expertise in respiratory disease. Coronavirus is not influenza, though it is a respiratory disease.
The CDC team, aside from Quick, was housed at U.S. Embassy facilities. No American CDC staffer besides Quick was embedded with China’s disease control agency, the sources said.
China in recent weeks has reported a dramatic slowdown in new cases, the result of drastic containment measures including the lockdown of Hubei province, home to 60 million people.
Nevertheless, the infectious disease experts who spoke with Reuters said, the United States could use people like Quick with contacts on the ground, especially if fears of a second wave of infections materializes.
Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the CDC, said that if the U.S. resident adviser had still been in China, “it is possible that we would know more today about how this coronavirus is spreading and what works best to stop it.” (Sure, it's possible and it's also possible China wouldn't want the world to know about this....Oh, wait...)
Dr. George Conway, a medical epidemiologist who knows Quick and had served as resident advisor between 2012 and 2015, said funding for the position had been tenuous for years because of a perennial debate among U.S health officials over whether China should be paying for funding its own training program. (The position wasn't a stable one to begin with....okay and I don't like the guy for his name only)
Oh yes, just as AP and the rest of the mainstream media took their orders from Tass and Pravda back in the days of the Soviet Union. And also remember that a lot of wealthy liberal interests (Apple, Microsoft, Disney, etc) have significant investments in China and that could all come crashing down when no one wants to buy Made in China anymore.
I tried scapegoating a few times but I fell right off.
There will be no payments from China or all of this and they will never admit wrong on a large scale.
BUT the good end result will be a lot less production in China because Trump will demand certain products be made her and other companies may now see the devastating risks of putting your company’s hands in a COMMUNIST regime!!
Or I could be wrong about all of that :)
Don’t start nuthin’, won’t be nuthin’.
China has been attacking every other country, and most viciously the United States, in a coordinated propaganda campaign to escape responsibility for this disaster.
Winnie-the-Flu comes from China. It was amplified by the backward government of President Xi Jinping, which is why the disease bears his name.
Wait china, just wait! You will not fear trump, trumps administration, and the us government, as much as you WILL fear us.
YOU WILL FEAR THE AMERCIAN PEOPLE WE WILL NOT BUY “MADE IN CHINA” ANYMORE!!
BUY AMERICAN, BUY AMERICAN!
Reday made for the press. Funny how convenient this is.
MSM= the Borg
Want to bet she is a Chinese asset and would not have uttered a word regardless.
‘Scapegoating’? That’s rich coming from China.
Denial via the continued spewing of BS. GG China. /s
It is U.S. Capitalist Pigs fault that we must beat and torture these Christians! It racist to call virus Chinese!
Fake nationalism is the only thing keeping the wolves from their door. China has a LONG history of civil war and "regime change".
Watch the “journalists” pressing the point that calling Winnie-the-Flu the Chinese Flu is “racist”.
They are agents of the Chinese Communist Party, bought and paid for. There is simply no other explanation for their actions. They are strengthening Trump in their efforts to carry water for their Chinese paymasters.
China continues to press this line of attack, because they simply can’t believe that one man, alone, can stand against their onslaught. Our own Horatius at the Bridge, Donald J. Trump.
When the outbreak first started gaining worldwide attention there was a series of before and after satellite photographs showing the dramatic decrease in smog levels around major Chinese manufacturing cities. Pretty amazing photos if I recall correctly.
Now that there are no new cases in China and things are back to normal do they have new photographs showing the return to normal smog levels?
AssPress pretends the ChiComs didn’t blame this virus on the US sending it to China.
China is trying to influence the 2020 election to help the democrats and AP is happy to help spread disinformation an propaganda
the byline should include the ChiComs
And remember last year when the MSM was running Iranian propaganda as news
Turns out she still works at the CDC and got promoted.
No, she was promoted out of the position and Reuters is trying to make it look like she was fired.
Note that the Chinese government AND the Looney left are promoting the same ‘scapegoating / stigmatizing’ talking point to give their mutually preferred candidate Cuomo support.
Yep. The Democrat meme is Cuomo shows responsibility, Trump avoids responsibility [somehow Trump is to blame for an outbreak in China.]
See? Democrats in the press are using the same talking point as the communist Chinese:
In coronavirus crisis, Cuomo and Trump show contrast in leadership
3/23/2020, 6:24:37 AM · by Oldeconomybuyer · 13 replies
NBC “News” ^ | March 22, 2020 | By Jonathan Allen (D-NBC)
Analysis: Two of the nation’s most powerful executives are exhibiting nearly opposite leadership styles, policy instincts and public relations strategies. One day, President Donald Trump told Americans that he bore no share of the blame for testing missteps that have increased the devastation wrought by coronavirus. “I don’t take responsibility at all,” he said. A few days later, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo welcomed accountability for the extraordinary measures his state has put in place to stop the spread of the virus, including the closure of “nonessential” businesses beginning at 8 p.m. Sunday. “If someone wants to blame someone, blame...
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