'The coronavirus threat couldn't come at a worse time for Americans, as Trump has eliminated the position of Global Health Czar and repeatedly proposed cuts to important global health funding,' write Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar for CNNOpinion.
Chelsea Clinton is the Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation and teaches at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia. She completed her D.Phil in international relations at Oxford University, examining the first decade of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. Devi Sridhar is a professor at the University of Edinburgh's Medical School and holds the Chair in Global Public Health. Previously, she was associate professor in global health politics at Oxford University.
The coronavirus that emerged from Wuhan, China, last year is causing alarm across the world, with fear that this could become the next pandemic. Late last month, the World Health Organization declared the virus, named COVID-19, a"Public Health Emergency of International Concern" and urged an immediate international response.
It advised its member states to put in place national preparedness plans and procedures for identifying and responding to any COVID-19 cases that might present. The death toll of more than 2,600 people far exceeds that of the SARS outbreak nearly 17 years ago. Chelsea ClintonDevi Sridhar This outbreak is terrifying for the tens of millions of people impacted in Wuhan and in countries around the world, and it arguably could not come at a worse time for Americans.
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