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USA-Coronavirus/CDC/Report
Beijing, China - Oct 18, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Screenshot of report from Wall Street Journal
2. Screenshot of open letter signed by 1,044 current and former officials within U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service
FILE: Washington D.C., USA - May 12, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of White House, surroundings
FILE: New York City, New York, USA - April 22, 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of Fearless Girl sculpture wearing mask on, facing New York Stock Exchange building
FILE: Florida, USA - May 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of drive-through testing site
FILE: Denver, Colorado, USA - June 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of medical workers collecting samples from drivers
7. Vehicles passing
Beijing, China - Oct 18, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Screenshot of report from Wall Street Journal
FILE: Florida, USA - May 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Various of medical worker collecting blood sample
10. Test tubes
FILE: Denver, Colorado, USA - September 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
11. Various of students walking, riding bike on campus
Beijing, China - Oct 18, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
12. Screenshot of Alexis Madrigal, co-founder of U.S. COVID Tracking Project, in interview with MSNBC
FILE: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Date Unknown (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
13. Medical worker wheeling patient down hospital corridor
FILE: Washington D.C., USA - July 2020 (FSN - No access Chinese mainland/Iran/Russia)
14. Pedestrian walking outside hospital
15. U.S. national flag
More than 1,000 former and current officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have signed an open letter expressing their concerns over the country's COVID-19 response, according to a Friday report from the Wall Street Journal.
The 1,044 signatories within the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) expressed their dissatisfaction about "the ominous politicization and silencing of the nation's health protection agency during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic."
The report also said the letter pointed out that "the absence of national leadership on COVID-19 is unprecedented and dangerous." It also said that the epidemic in the U.S. has been exacerbating due to transmission chains spread out in the country, but the different states and territories were left to develop their own systems in diagnosing the highly contagious disease.
"Inconsistent contact tracing efforts are confined within each state's borders — while coronavirus infections sadly are not. Such chaos is what CDC customarily avoided by its long history of collaboration with state and local health authorities in developing national systems for disease surveillance and coordinated control," the letter said.
At the end, the letter stated that the devastation from COVID-19 continues with no end in sight as of yet.
"CDC should be at the forefront of a successful response to this global public health emergency. We urgently call upon the American people to demand and our nation's leaders to allow CDC to resume its indispensable role," said the letter.
One of the signatories, Charles Rabkin, also a medical epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, said the letter showed "an expression of solidarity among our community."
Apart from health professionals, co-founder of the U.S. COVID-19 Tracking Project Alexis Madrigal also slammed the U.S. response toward COVID-19 in an television interview with MSNBC on Friday. Madrigal, also a journalist with The Atlantic, said that the U.S. "never really got control" over COVID-19, which led to a surge in the death toll.
The U.S. remains the worst-hit country in the world, with the highest caseload and death toll. The total number of COVID-19 cases exceeded 8.1 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
The cumulative case count amounted to 8,101,940, including a death toll of 219,154 as of 20:24 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, data from the CSSE showed.
USA-Coronavirus/CDC/Report
Dateline : Oct 18, 2020/File
Location : United States
Duration : 2'00
Beijing, China - Oct 18, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Screenshot of report from Wall Street Journal
2. Screenshot of open letter signed by 1,044 current and former officials within U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service
FILE: Washington D.C., USA - May 12, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of White House, surroundings
FILE: New York City, New York, USA - April 22, 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of Fearless Girl sculpture wearing mask on, facing New York Stock Exchange building
FILE: Florida, USA - May 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of drive-through testing site
FILE: Denver, Colorado, USA - June 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of medical workers collecting samples from drivers
7. Vehicles passing
Beijing, China - Oct 18, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Screenshot of report from Wall Street Journal
FILE: Florida, USA - May 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Various of medical worker collecting blood sample
10. Test tubes
FILE: Denver, Colorado, USA - September 2020 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
11. Various of students walking, riding bike on campus
Beijing, China - Oct 18, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
12. Screenshot of Alexis Madrigal, co-founder of U.S. COVID Tracking Project, in interview with MSNBC
FILE: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Date Unknown (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
13. Medical worker wheeling patient down hospital corridor
FILE: Washington D.C., USA - July 2020 (FSN - No access Chinese mainland/Iran/Russia)
14. Pedestrian walking outside hospital
15. U.S. national flag
More than 1,000 former and current officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have signed an open letter expressing their concerns over the country's COVID-19 response, according to a Friday report from the Wall Street Journal.
The 1,044 signatories within the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) expressed their dissatisfaction about "the ominous politicization and silencing of the nation's health protection agency during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic."
The report also said the letter pointed out that "the absence of national leadership on COVID-19 is unprecedented and dangerous." It also said that the epidemic in the U.S. has been exacerbating due to transmission chains spread out in the country, but the different states and territories were left to develop their own systems in diagnosing the highly contagious disease.
"Inconsistent contact tracing efforts are confined within each state's borders — while coronavirus infections sadly are not. Such chaos is what CDC customarily avoided by its long history of collaboration with state and local health authorities in developing national systems for disease surveillance and coordinated control," the letter said.
At the end, the letter stated that the devastation from COVID-19 continues with no end in sight as of yet.
"CDC should be at the forefront of a successful response to this global public health emergency. We urgently call upon the American people to demand and our nation's leaders to allow CDC to resume its indispensable role," said the letter.
One of the signatories, Charles Rabkin, also a medical epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, said the letter showed "an expression of solidarity among our community."
Apart from health professionals, co-founder of the U.S. COVID-19 Tracking Project Alexis Madrigal also slammed the U.S. response toward COVID-19 in an television interview with MSNBC on Friday. Madrigal, also a journalist with The Atlantic, said that the U.S. "never really got control" over COVID-19, which led to a surge in the death toll.
The U.S. remains the worst-hit country in the world, with the highest caseload and death toll. The total number of COVID-19 cases exceeded 8.1 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
The cumulative case count amounted to 8,101,940, including a death toll of 219,154 as of 20:24 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday, data from the CSSE showed.
ID : 8162000
Published : 2020-10-18 11:13
Last Modified : 2020-10-19 19:23:00
Source : China Central Television (CCTV),China Global Television Network (CGTN),Other
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