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We have seen a few doctors and scientists (which I think should be relegated to the lower tiles) being clouded with their political biases and giving a twisted analysis of the COVID-19 handling of different countries.

Fortunately, the world's top notch scientists are able to fend off politicking and see things as it is.




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Spotlight: Prestigious journal lambasts U.S. handling of COVID-19, citing China's experience in curbing infections
Source: Xinhua| 2020-10-09 00:39:12|Editor: huaxia

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Empty chairs sit on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Oct. 4, 2020. Twenty thousand empty chairs were set up near the White House on Sunday to mourn the more than 200,000 lives lost in United States from COVID-19. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
"And in the United States we have consistently behaved poorly," says the editorial.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, said in an editorial published Thursday that leaders of the United States have failed the test produced by the COVID-19 crisis, and they "have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy."
The journal broke with a nearly two-century tradition of avoiding politics to lambast U.S. politicians for their handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report of NBC News.
"COVID-19 is an overwhelming challenge, and many factors contribute to its severity. But the one we can control is how we behave. And in the United States we have consistently behaved poorly," said the editorial.
The editorial, titled "Dying in a Leadership Vacuum," cited China's experience in curbing the spread of the pandemic.
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A screengrab from the website of The New England Journal of Medicine shows the title and the first two paragraphs of its editorial "Dying in a Leadership Vacuum," in which the editors write "Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test." (Xinhua)
"China, faced with the first outbreak, chose strict quarantine and isolation after an initial delay. These measures were severe but effective, essentially eliminating transmission at the point where the outbreak began and reducing the death rate to a reported 3 per million, as compared with more than 500 per million in the United States," said the editorial.
Countries that had far more exchange with China, such as Singapore and South Korea, began intensive testing early, along with aggressive contact tracing and appropriate isolation, and have had relatively small outbreaks, said the editorial.
Months into the pandemic, the United States has recorded more than 7,560,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 212,100 deaths as of Thursday morning, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The editors wrote that while COVID-19 is a global crisis, the United States government has "failed at almost every step" to contain the pathogen's spread.
The editorial attributed the country's bad handling of the pandemic to factors including incapable of testing effectively, not providing even the most basic personal protective equipment to health care workers and the general public, way behind the curve in testing, and a lack of emphasis on developing capacity to produce timely results for disease control.
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A screengrab from the Twitter account of The New England Journal of Medicine shows its editorial "Dying in a Leadership Vacuum" as a "Pinned Tweet," in which the editors write "We have failed at almost every step." (Xinhua)
"The response of our nation's leaders has been consistently inadequate. The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states," said the editorial.
The country's current leaders have undercut trust in science and in government, causing damage that will certainly outlast them, according to the editorial.
"Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed 'opinion leaders' and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies," said the editorial.
"When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent," the editors wrote. "We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs."
"Throughout its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine has remained staunchly nonpartisan. The world's most prestigious medical journal has never supported or condemned a political candidate. Until now," said a report of The New York Times. ■
 

SoupDumplings

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@Temstar I've seen your posts on Reddit. Do you know how many tests are done a day in China? I remember reading a while back that there was going to be an expansion of testing infrastructure in preparation for winter. Are there any chinese articles that has commented on it? Thanks.
 

Temstar

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@Temstar I've seen your posts on Reddit. Do you know how many tests are done a day in China? I remember reading a while back that there was going to be an expansion of testing infrastructure in preparation for winter. Are there any chinese articles that has commented on it? Thanks.
I haven't seen any further updates. Last number I saw was around the time of the very small outbreak in Guangdong, and at that time China's total test capacity was just under 5 million tests a day.

Despite not finding any domestic cases for something like 50 days now China is running tests per day into the millions. Individuals working in high risk professions (eg: nurses, doctors, dock workers) for example are tested every two weeks just to be sure. That's how the two dock worker asymptomatic carriers were discovered in Qingdao recently.
 

SoupDumplings

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I haven't seen any further updates. Last number I saw was around the time of the very small outbreak in Guangdong, and at that time China's total test capacity was just under 5 million tests a day.

Despite not finding any domestic cases for something like 50 days now China is running tests per day into the millions. Individuals working in high risk professions (eg: nurses, doctors, dock workers) for example are tested every two weeks just to be sure. That's how the two dock worker asymptomatic carriers were discovered in Qingdao recently.
Yeah, I remember you mentioning that China was constantly testing people in risky professions. Just wondering, since it has been quite a while since the news mentioned China's daily test rate. I thought that meant that China was doing well. Ah well, thanks anyway.
 

manqiangrexue

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Remarkable dedication by the CCP...
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China testing entire city after just 12 cases end COVID-free streak

Ramy Inocencio
Mon, October 12, 2020, 12:07 PM EDT

Beijing — China's
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has been broken. Six people with symptoms and another six without any have tested positive for the virus that causes
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in one city, prompting a dramatic response.

All of the cases are linked to a single hospital, the Qingdao Chest Hospital, in the city of Qingdao on China's eastern coast. The city's health commission posted the news to Chinese social media site Weibo, and the hospital, about 250 miles southeast of Beijing, has been closed.
Qingdao is home to about 9 million people, more than New York City and twice as many as Los Angeles, and authorities are now in the process of testing every single one of them. They're determined to finish that process by the end of this week — a remarkable feat, but not unexpected in China.

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Compare that to:
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Lesson not learned: Europe unprepared as 2nd virus wave hits
NICOLE WINFIELD,
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October 10, 2020

I tried highlighting just the important parts but the whole this is just solid with condemning facts. It's long too.
 

AssassinsMace

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I would think after this past travel holiday if no big re-emergence of COVID-19 occurs, it will mark a big historical point that the West will never acknowledge.

It's funny here in the US, the media always reports on the competition for the race for a vaccine. Of course China is never even mentioned. It's interesting since the Oxford vaccine use to be always in the conversation. Now it's not. They only had two adverse affects... Supposedly the reason is there are more and different side effects going on that they're not bothering to mention hence why all of the sudden they're not in the conversation anymore like they never existed.
 

ansy1968

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I would think after this past travel holiday if no big re-emergence of COVID-19 occurs, it will mark a big historical point that the West will never acknowledge.

It's funny here in the US, the media always reports on the competition for the race for a vaccine. Of course China is never even mentioned. It's interesting since the Oxford vaccine use to be always in the conversation. Now it's not. They only had two adverse affects... Supposedly the reason is there are more and different side effects going on that they're not bothering to mention hence why all of the sudden they're not in the conversation anymore like they never existed.
Hi AssassinsMace,

Yes, even here not a word, nada, thanks for CGTN and local social media, majority of them had WECHAT acct and are able disseminate the news (now we know why they want to ban Wechat). Most Filipinos are encourage that China is willing to supply that vaccine and had seen the effort (understand)of Duterte China pivot. That is why this vaccine diplomacy will boost China standing IF a big IF she know how to play the game to her advantage. The last time she bungled the testing kit and mask supply big time due to MSM conspire propaganda, now by joining Covax , she had a partner (international body and other western country) to make it more credible.
 
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