OPINION | 'So long as he enables pandemic skeptics, and detracts from the urgent need to get ready, Speaker McCarthy is personally working to risk a fourth devastating coronavirus pandemic,' writes PeterHotez
. But the extensive studies and information collected even in the past year overwhelmingly point to animal origins of COVID-19.
A policeman watches over a civet cat captured in the wild by a farmer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on May 26, 2003.This brings us to the most important point: We have now had three serious epidemics or pandemics from human coronavirus infections in this 21st century—first SARS, then MERS, and now COVID-19. This is a reason my research group began making coronavirus vaccines a decade ago. Mother Nature is not being obscure or coy with us.
In 2020, we saw how the CDC missed the entry of the SARS-2 coronavirus from Southern Europe and Asia into New York, and then failed to get diagnostic testing underway. The CDC also fell short in scaling up the genomic sequencing of the virus, failed to model the path and scope of the illness in the U.S. and globally, and had to rely on the United Kingdom or Israel for measuring the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccinations, among its other deficiencies.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before the Seante Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee during a hearing on monkeypox on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2022.If the U.S. Congress truly wanted to be helpful, rather than embark on fruitless scientific witch hunts, which will serve to distract the scientific community, it would focus on getting us ready for the next pandemic.
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