Posted on 03/23/2020 1:45:32 AM PDT by granada
Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
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Lol. To help to detect African swine fever in China?
Reuter’s is laughable. Why give them space on this site? Have you no standards?
Debunked by CDC head at yesterday’s news conference
They explained why they did this yesterday at the press conference, no big dead.
If China won’t even let their own Doctors speak up about an outbreak, I don’t think they will let a foreigner.
“Debunked by CDC head at yesterday’s news conference”
Yep. More fake news.
Marisa Taylor, just another frumpy leftist “reporter” peddling BS. Unfortunately they are a dime a dozen.
The flubros are making me wonder if we don’t do a little “fake news” ourselves.
As typical with the lamestream press.media: Spew lies or misinformation over and over and eventually people will take such as truth/fact. GG /s
Because China is so open to Americans assigned to the Embassy there, just ask the people working in the Beijing CIA station.
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)
Last I knew the ChiComs still haven’t allowed the CDC or NIH in.
Here we go will be the latest news cycle story for 48 hours again trying to trash the trump administration and to appease china. i am so sick of these bastard reporters
Just more scum bucket trash by MSM to disparage Trump.
got a new one to combine here:
Previously, (hat tip to grey_whiskers)
posted the original medical articles explaining how a corona virus was modified, intentionally, and that is could also jump from bats to humans
“it was engineered alright. At UNC-Chapel Hill, with the assistance of a Chi-com.
SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus pose threat for human emergence
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/
New SARS-like virus can jump directly from bats to humans, no treatment available
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151110115711.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151115003432/http://www.sciencedaily.com:80/releases/2015/11/151110115711.htm
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) proteins of different bat species confer variable susceptibility to SARS-CoV entry
“”and tested their interactions with human SARS-CoV spike protein using both HIV-based pseudotype and live SARS-CoV infection assays.””
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00705-010-0729-6
Top 10 Reasons To Believe the Wuhan Virology Lab Caused 2019-nCoV
https://listverse.com/2020/03/20/top-10-reasons-to-believe-the-wuhan-virology-lab-caused-2019-ncov/
Well, seems some other people knew where to go with that:
“A Harvard Professor, The DOD & NIH, A Chinese Spy, 21 Stolen Vials Of “Biological Research”, & Nanoscience
Links to the DOJ arrest and search for the missing Chinese woman whose name is on the original medical papers as being part of the team who created the virus
Note the wording; “ ...we generated and characterized a chimeric virus.” She didn’t just study it, she generated it.
“Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases
This is more than a flu.
Was it a bioweapon?
Stefan Molyneux interviews Dr Paul Cottrell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6VEYzwSdZU
Trump would not be doing what he has done for a flu.
What it is, I dunno, maybe just a bad flu, but the Chinese went full martial law to contain it, and entire countries are quarantining themselves over it, and the democrats are willing to destroy the USA to let it in.
Reuters was trash long before CNN and MSNBC were even created.
This is my take, as well. We, the citizens, are not being told everything. And whatever it is, the President has decided it’s better that we bicker with each other and attack him rather than know the true nature of what we are up against.
Probably saved the life of the “CDC expert” without even knowing it.
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