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Sun Mar 22, 2020, 05:41 PM Mar 2020

Trump Axed (Beijing) CDC Expert Job Months Before Outbreak

Trump Axed CDC Expert Job Months Before Outbreak

March 22, 2020 at 5:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/22/trump-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-outbreak/

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“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 reports.

“The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July… The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help.

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