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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins [View all]TomCADem
(17,387 posts)27. Trump says China "should have told us" about coronavirus. He removed the official meant to do that.
I think the Biden administration's move is designed to force China to be more transparent to try to re-establish access that Trump surrendered.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/23/21190713/coronavirus-trump-china-cdc-embed-quick
President Donald Trump loves to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic, but new information surfaced over the weekend that the administration eliminated a position last July that potentially could have helped the US get an earlier jump on a response to the crisis, suggesting the president may need to place blame a little closer to home.
The Trump administration told the United States embed at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the position would be defunded, causing her to leave her post in July 2019, according to a report from Reuterss Marisa Taylor. The embed helped train Chinese public health experts and served in part as a liaison between Chinese officials and their counterparts in the US.
With the administration planning to discontinue the role, the embed return to the US about five months before China began to see its first Covid-19 cases. Under normal circumstances, the embed likely would have passed information about the novel virus to US officials. Instead, Chinese officials were able for weeks to conceal the virus and the threat it posed, leading to a delay in the worlds response to what was then a matter of great concern and is now a pandemic.
When asked about his administrations role in this decision during Sundays daily coronavirus press conference, Trump called on US CDC Director Robert Redfield to answer the question before attacking the press, saying, This is just like the other stuff that you, not you, but the press was asking. We actually gave CDC more money, not less money they said we defunded, it turned out it was more money. Every one of those things that was said were 100 percent wrong, and this sounds like another one.
The Trump administration told the United States embed at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the position would be defunded, causing her to leave her post in July 2019, according to a report from Reuterss Marisa Taylor. The embed helped train Chinese public health experts and served in part as a liaison between Chinese officials and their counterparts in the US.
With the administration planning to discontinue the role, the embed return to the US about five months before China began to see its first Covid-19 cases. Under normal circumstances, the embed likely would have passed information about the novel virus to US officials. Instead, Chinese officials were able for weeks to conceal the virus and the threat it posed, leading to a delay in the worlds response to what was then a matter of great concern and is now a pandemic.
When asked about his administrations role in this decision during Sundays daily coronavirus press conference, Trump called on US CDC Director Robert Redfield to answer the question before attacking the press, saying, This is just like the other stuff that you, not you, but the press was asking. We actually gave CDC more money, not less money they said we defunded, it turned out it was more money. Every one of those things that was said were 100 percent wrong, and this sounds like another one.
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U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins [View all]
SouthBayDem
May 2021
OP
To be honest I would not be surprised if it leaked from a bio lab in China because
cstanleytech
May 2021
#1
China's economy shrank 6.8% due to nationwide lockdowns at the peak of its Covid-19 outbreak
TomCADem
May 2021
#28
Honestly, at this point it's just being investigated to appease the Trumpublicans.
Lancero
May 2021
#3
Remember how we lashed out at Trump, not that long ago, for his attempts to label it the...
Lancero
May 2021
#7
If Trump simply stated that there were suspicions it originated from a Chinese lab
Sapient Donkey
May 2021
#30