'Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences,' the editorial reads, adding that the upcoming November elections 'gives us power to render judgment.'
In a first for the world’s leading medical journal, which has sought to be nonpartisan, The New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial on Wednesday denouncing the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and calling on its readers to vote out the president out, writing,"They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy."... [+]
While not directly endorsing a candidate for president or a political party, the medical journal calls"our current political leaders. . .dangerously incompetent" and that,"We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs." The journal cites oft-mentioned failings by the federal government, from the lack of preparation in the run up to the national emergency, to the subsequent shortages of testing and personal protective equipment, to the inconsistent quarantine measures that were lifted too early, to the politicization of face masks, and an abandonment of guidance and assistance to state governors.
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