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‘Gross negligence’: Trump administration cut CDC expert monitoring outbreaks in China months before coronavirus

The Trump administration eliminated a key public health office in Beijing that detected disease outbreaks in China in the months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Reuters reports.

Dr. Linda Quick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s resident adviser to the U.S. Field Epidemiology Training Program in China, left her position in July. The move came after she learned that her position would be eliminated in September, months before the new coronavirus began to slowly spread in November, according to the report.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” Bao-Ping Zhu, one of Quick’s predecessors, told the outlet. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.” Continue reading.

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