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What the US did is nothing short of amazing. They lead the early race on the science and continued to lead . China is complex. We underestimated their totalita
by aaron695 5y ago
What the US did is nothing short of amazing. They lead the early race on the science and continued to lead .
China is complex. We underestimated their totalitarianism but they also had solid science which we ignored, reporters on CNN were happy to contradict China's head of health. China got the genome online when the death toll was one. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947.1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947.1 That seems fast to me.
The report is missing the media. They seem to have been the most destructive force during the pandemic.
Only recently Europe has overtaken the USA on vaccines uptake -
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_vaccinations_per_hundred&Metric=Vaccine+doses&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=USA~GBR~ISR~DEU~ARE~ARG~FRA~SGP~NZL~JPN~AUS https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...