COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out

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One year after the COVID-18 virus spread across the world, America  reflects on the coronavirus as 540,000+ Americans perished in the past year due to COVID-19, with several physicians/public health officials stating numbers could have been 400,000 lower if the US just  hunkered down last April 2020.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta MD, CNN  Chief Medical Coorespondant spent the last year documenting and disseminating COVID-19 information. He spoke with six former Trump government officials in charge of the COVID-19 task force creating this documentary.

Full broadcast airs Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.

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"COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out,"

Autopsy of a pandemic: 6 doctors at the center of the US Covid-19 response

America arrives at a moment of introspection on the coronavirus

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...As tens of thousands of grieving families are still trying to understand what could have been done differently to prevent mass casualties at that scale, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked six of the top doctors who ran point on the pandemic response to provide their insights in a new documentary that will air on Sunday night. They reached the chilling conclusion that the vast majority of America's deaths could have been prevented, a painful interpretation of the last year for a nation still trying to come to terms with the ongoing loss of life....

...As the doctors who served in the Trump administration begin to talk more openly about the nation's missteps, one key piece of the puzzle is understanding the origins of the pandemic -- and what could have been done in those early months to halt the spread of Covid-19, which had reached US shores by January 21, 2020.

In an excerpt of the CNN documentary released Friday, Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the CDC, expressed fresh skepticism about China's explanation that the initial Covid-19 cases emerged in a wet market in Wuhan. He told Gupta that he is convinced the pandemic began several months before the US was notified of the "mysterious cluster of pneumonia patients" in late December -- raising the specter that the US and the world lost a precious period when they could have begun preparing for the outbreak to mitigate deaths.

Without citing anything to back up his claim, Redfield also told Gupta he believes the pandemic originated in a lab in China that was already studying the virus, a controversial theory that the World Health Organization called "extremely unlikely" and for which there is no clear evidence.....

March 22, 2021  Fox News Inghram Angle show ---  Trump on Fauci: 'I listened to him, but I didn't do what he said'    " I did the opposite" "Fauci is a media creation"  --- 

Clearly see Trumps perceived being upstaged  , a big NO, NO in his mind.   One doesn't last 40 years as a government health department head without having some serious clinical acumen and health system savvy to negotiate healthcare problems. This is why  American families suffered needless loved ones deaths.

 

 

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CNN rebroadcasting this special  Friday 4/2/21 @ 9PM.

 

The Hill 3/29/21

Trump targets Fauci, Birx in lengthy diatribe

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..."Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned," Trump said in a statement Monday. "They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine—putting millions of lives at risk."...

Based on Trumps statements, he is directly responsible for the high COVID death toll --- now over 552,741 deaths today.  Per CDC yesterday, still with 1000 deaths/day from COVID-19.

Boston Herald has full Trump statement