Another reminder: in U.S. we must now expect a regular cadence of pandemic threats: SARS in 2002, SARS-2/Covid in 2019, likely SARS-3; avian flu; Nipah; Ebola 2014, 2019; Zika 2016, soon dengue, YF. So we can’t screw around, the Trump Admin needs serious players for CDC, FDA, NIH
https://twitter.com/RickABright/status/1855585055956930637
The Trump Administration and the Republican-led Congress must take this seriously. If we’re going to have a chance vs this onslaught of pandemic threats - and they are coming - we cannot waste time with ideologues, lightweights, propagandists, and antivaccine activists
In his first term in office: they missed the entry of the SARS-2 virus into NYC from Southern Europe bc they focused on travel from China, couldn’t organize testing and tracing, lost time and lives bc of fake hydroxychloroquine cures that didn’t work. We can’t do that again
Pandemic denialism and wasting time with Great Barrington propaganda/nonsense and spectacular fake cures like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin that never worked may have cost him his re-election in 2020. Hopefully, lessons learned so we don’t endure this again.
Our nation depends on science and evidence-based public health leaders and leadership, a lot of bad stuff is headed our way beginning with H 5N1 with us now, SARS-3 brewing in bats somewhere in Asia, filoviruses, Mpox, and widespread tropical infection in Texas and Gulf Coast.
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