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To: Les H who wrote (23056)	3/25/2020 10:52:20 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 49013

Last Man Standing China Wins Big With Covid-19. What Were We Thinking? GODFREE ROBERTS • MARCH 22, 2020 China suffered through the H1N1 coronavirus epidemic in 2008 largely because the CDC took 6 months to identify it and, as a result, 300,000 died prematurely. SARS (774 deaths) was the clincher. They created a hair-trigger alarm system, mandated post-mortem pneumonia DNA testing nationwide, and promoted the CDC head, Dr. George F. Gao[1], to Demigod. Their Covid-19 emergency has now passed and must give Dr. Gao a B+ because, though his system contained a potential epidemic it suffered from a weakness: local politicians could delay, (but not stop) the alarm sounding. Doubtless for sound bureaucratic reasons, Wuhan officials delayed notifying Beijing for a few weeks but, after Beijing pried the information from the Wuhan Director of Public Health[2], the system swung into action, everyone pitched in, and they literally killed it. unz.com So Trump eliminates the CDC position months before the outbreak. Good thing China did its own research.