WASHINGTON - 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.
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.
Since then, the outbreak of the disease known as COVID-19 has spread rapidly worldwide, killing more than 13,600 people, infecting more than 317,000. The epidemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems some countries, including Italy, and threatens to do so in the United States and elsewhere. “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.”Asked for comment on Chinese transparency and responsiveness to the outbreak, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred Reuters to remarks by spokesman Geng Shuang on Friday.
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.
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.
Hindsight is 20/20... would’ve mattered more if you wrote this when it happened. No one could’ve predicted this pandemic. Nice try. Next.
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Eliminate him from his position in November. Simple 🤔
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Red herring. There was plenty of info coming out of China early on. Whether this position existed/didn't exist had no meaningful effect whatsoever on information and knowledge. Perhaps if World Health Organization hadn't minimized the situation we would be in a better position.
Now it is the US fault, trying to excuse the Chinese regime from covering up the outbreak, nice work Reuters
Rich
The CCP thanks you for your service.
Does This mean he was removed so that China can’t be helped in detecting epidemics which serves American interests? That is priceless.
How many months are 'several months'. 😄
4.when there were riots in the United States, I warned the Pentagon that someone would bring down tc so (the pentagon shared a picture) tc could bring down the army the addressee is TC.
1. Trump isn't psychic. 2. Considering how much China covered up do you really think she would have been in the loop? No, the CCP would have made sure she didn't find out anything. They probably would remove her from the country if they thought it was necessary to their cover up.
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1st.I predicted that Israel will bind itself to the Golan Heights I warned the state 1 month later yapyilar 2nd ed.I have warned the Syrian regime to infiltrate northern Syria. 3.I've warned the northern IRA to watch out for the southern borders.
marisaataylor petty cost cutting when they gave corps tax cuts worth billions
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marisaataylor Buried 16 paragraphs into this article are these two very telling paragraphs:
marisaataylor Did the sanctuary cities do more to contribute to the spread of COVID-19 than any gains that might have occurred by having a 'security monitor' in China? Are theoreticians dreamers engaging in guesswork rather than objective observers?
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marisaataylor Of course they did. 🤦🏼♀️
marisaataylor 我记得是美国的专家，但是是以私人名义去的。因为当时中美由于政治原因无法达成一致，中国宣称美国的条件过于苛刻
marisaataylor Tell us in more details, otherwise it’ll cause any kinds of terrible associations.
marisaataylor The CDC debunked this hours ago. This needs to be removed as it is false.
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marisaataylor What a bizarre coincidence
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marisaataylor NOT TRUE!!!!
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marisaataylor Dear Reuters, we have twitter, not newspaper. Already saw the argument against it several tweets down. Also Trump addressed it today or rather his staff who said we actually sent more people. Why am I more “news” than you?
marisaataylor From tRump's January 2020 comments it seems that he had his mind up that the Coronavirus threat to the U.S. wld be mild. So PERHAPS even Dr. Quick cldn't have convinced him to be aggressive, & get out in front of it.😐
marisaataylor realDonaldTrump is The Biggest Loser.
marisaataylor Breaking: Trump ate a banana before the pandemic.
marisaataylor Reuters: 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.
marisaataylor Of course. Because they axed the real actual science people, replaced them with lackeys who didn't think it was important enough to the Bottom Line.
marisaataylor “Donald Trump farted once during the Corona Virus outbreak”
marisaataylor Lol you all will do whatever to see that man lose
marisaataylor The dude that tells you which line to go to at security? Those bastards!
marisaataylor So USA had only person posted in China to detect Public health outbreaks USA had no other way of knowing ?
marisaataylor 他为什么要这样做呢？先自己活的久了嘛？
marisaataylor No surprise
All ready debunked Reuters......................................................... Fake News..EnemyOfThePeople
cdc shot ur lies down at the 5:30 press interview
Are you doing as much to destroy the UK as you're doing to destroy the USA?
KeithOlbermann KyrieMeMo Three For A Great Alarm: 1. Whistle. 2. Horn. 3. Embedded expert. ===================== Our early alert system in China was no longer in route- As an American CDC employee who was trained to be the eyes and ears on the ground last July was taken out.
Fake news 😂
Wait, what? So its America's fault china got this? We should have been there to stop them from covering it up for over a month?
Fake News bullshtt
misleading headline that contradicts actual article that specifically shows would not have made any difference
misleading headline. have to read on to see it would have made ZERO difference
Deep down in the article 👇
Sad that the SJW in here thinking that CCP would have let the CDC know regardless. Wake up people. All along CCP was covering this up.
More smearing of the American President at a time of national crisis? Pathetic.
You're getting sued too.
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KEY: “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.”
Reuters is working overtime for the Communist party of China.
KeithOlbermann charge Trump with CrimesAgainstHumanity
FAKE NEWS
He was corrupt
ChineseVirus
It’s academic, closing the border wouldn’t of happened sooner.
usa government is incompetent and not transparent. Stop pinning this on trump.
Dr. Linda Quick is a polio erradication specialist. (Look her up on Google) The last time China had a polio case was in 1994. Biggest non news story of the day.
It won’t have helped nothing. How to handle decease outbreaks is a political instead of a medical decision in China. CCP decided to cover up, the CDC expert would have been the last one to know if she remained in the role. If you think otherwise, you know nothing about CCP.
“The problem was how the Chinese handled it. What should have changed was the Chinese should have acknowledged it earlier and didn’t.”
“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.”
It won’t have helped nothing. How to handle decease outbreaks is a political instead of a medical decision in China. CCP decided to cover up, the CDC expert would have been the last one to know if he/she was in the role.
And another brilliant move by the trump folks. How many ways can he scre* things up?
. --- Thank you! Please get the whole truth out there cause this President is going to kill so many people.
Woaw
Reuters don't want their reporters kick out of China
China notified US about coronavirus outbreak on January 3, 2020. Since then, Trump has had 9 Florida golf trips and 11 MAGA rallies across country. Blaming China for ill preparation doesn't hold water.
What about the 50,000 members of that org? They quit too? Just stop.
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Bravo
What an absolute shit show.
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