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sabra

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Wed Oct 7, 2020, 06:00 PM Oct 2020

Prestigious medical journal calls for US leadership to be voted out over Covid-19 failure

Source: CNN

(CNN)In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic -- and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.

"We rarely publish editorials signed by all the editors," said Dr. Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the medical journal and an author of the new editorial.

The editorial, which Rubin said was drafted in August, details how the United States leads the world in Covid-19 cases and deaths. So far, more than 7.5 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and more than 200,000 people have died of the disease.

"This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond. Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test. They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy," the editorial says.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/health/nejm-editorial-political-leadership-bn/index.html

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Prestigious medical journal calls for US leadership to be voted out over Covid-19 failure (Original Post) sabra Oct 2020 OP
Big k&r Docreed2003 Oct 2020 #1
Finally, they see the light. LeftInTX Oct 2020 #2
Wonderful news, definitely timely. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2020 #3
Nice, but a bit late in the game. Could have saved thousands if... Tommymac Oct 2020 #4
Wish they would have condemned all repug lawmakers. KS Toronado Oct 2020 #5
K&R Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #6
A Big K&R for The New England Journal of Medicine n/t OhioChick Oct 2020 #7
K&R ck4829 Oct 2020 #8

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
4. Nice, but a bit late in the game. Could have saved thousands if...
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 08:32 PM
Oct 2020

they had said this in the late Spring.

Ah well, better late t hen not at all.

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