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Replace Trump And Bolster The CDC, A Leading Medical Journal Urges

The Trump administration has mounted an "inconsistent and incoherent national response" to the COVID-19 pandemic by injecting politics into public health policy, The Lancet says.
President Trump's administration "is obsessed with magic bullets — vaccines, new medicines, or a hope that the virus will simply disappear," <em>The Lancet</em> says. Trump and CDC Director Robert Redfield attended a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House last month.

Americans should oust President Trump from the White House and elect a leader who will support – rather than undermine – public health experts who are battling the COVID-19 pandemic, British medical journal The Lancet says in a newly published editorial.

The unsigned editorial sharply criticizes the Trump administration, saying it has marginalized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to a degree that is dangerous for both the U.S. and the world.

"Americans must put a president in the White House come January,

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