04-07-2020, 08:55 AM
A letter was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine by a doctor. You know, a member of the profession who understands disease and viruses and how to treat them. One of the experts who knows whether a treatment protocol is correct or not. Someone who will see us through this era of COVID-19.
He's a doctor, not a politician. He writes his piece as if it were a statement read by the President at an upcoming press briefing.
Paul E. Sax, MD
Contributing Editor
NEJM Journal Watch
Infectious Diseases
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I fired Tom Bossert — he was Homeland Security Adviser and coordinated the response to pandemics. I also let Tim Ziemer go — he was the head of global health security on the White House’s National Security Council. I then shut down the entire global health security unit.
Then Dr. Luciana Borio, the National Security Council’s director for medical and biodefense preparedness, left as well. Like Ziemer and Bossert, my administration never replaced these talented individuals — I confess these moves greatly weakened our ability to respond to infectious threats.
Dr. Borio tried to warn us in late January what was coming. I’m sorry for not heeding that warning.
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https://blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observat...020/04/06/
He's a doctor, not a politician. He writes his piece as if it were a statement read by the President at an upcoming press briefing.
Paul E. Sax, MD
Contributing Editor
NEJM Journal Watch
Infectious Diseases
...
I fired Tom Bossert — he was Homeland Security Adviser and coordinated the response to pandemics. I also let Tim Ziemer go — he was the head of global health security on the White House’s National Security Council. I then shut down the entire global health security unit.
Then Dr. Luciana Borio, the National Security Council’s director for medical and biodefense preparedness, left as well. Like Ziemer and Bossert, my administration never replaced these talented individuals — I confess these moves greatly weakened our ability to respond to infectious threats.
Dr. Borio tried to warn us in late January what was coming. I’m sorry for not heeding that warning.
...
https://blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observat...020/04/06/
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”