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
Docreed2003
(16,876 posts)LeftInTX
(25,556 posts)The AMA was anti-Obama.
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)they had said this in the late Spring.
Ah well, better late t hen not at all.