What the Lancet Says about the Trump Administration

The Lancet, one of the most respected medical journals in the world, points out in this editorial not only that the Trump Administration is "obsessed with magic bullets" with regard to the COVID-19 crisis, but also that conservatives since the 1980s have "increasingly eroded the [CDC''s] ability to mount effective, evidence-based public health responses."

The concluding paragraph of the editorial calls for President Trump to be voted out of office in November.

The Trump administration's further erosion of the CDC will harm 
global cooperation in science and public health, as it is trying 
to do by defunding WHO. A strong CDC is needed to respond to public 
health threats, both domestic and international, and to help prevent 
the next inevitable pandemic. Americans must put a president in the 
White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health
should not be guided by partisan politics.

It is absolutely right that a scientific and medical organization should be pointing out the glaring lack of support for rational and science-based approaches to combating a world-wide pandemic. But it is still shocking that it is necessary.