特朗普真的“做得不错”？美疾控中心发报告反省疫情中的失误

美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)上周五发布了一份报告，用以复盘美国新冠疫情发展，反省在抗击疫情过程中犯下的错误。报告显示，美国错失了几个减缓新冠病毒蔓延的机会，并列出了导致病毒迅速传播的四个因素。

The U.S. missed several crucial opportunities to slow the spread of COVID-19, which has infected more than a million people and killed nearly 70,000, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday.

这份报告的主笔之一，CDC首席副主任 Anne Schuchat在后来接受美联社采访时强调说：“我认为，现在回想起来，早点采取行动可能会推迟（疫情扩散）时间，或者减缓疫情扩散的速度。”

The report, penned by CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, listed four factors that had accelerated the spread of the coronavirus.

"I think in retrospect, taking action earlier could have delayed further amplification [of the U.S. outbreak], or delayed the speed of it," Schuchat stressed later in an interview with the Associated Press.

The four factors are:

1. 旅行限制令有疏漏，大量旅客持续输入

Travelers carrying the virus keep flooding into the U.S. Though the government banned entrance from China very early, it didn't work for Europeans who caught the virus in home country and then traveled to America. It's until March 11 that the government shut down travels from Europe.

2. 各种大规模聚会导致疫情在早期迅速传播

Large gatherings like festivals, meetings and other events. There was Mardi Gras celebrations in Louisiana in late February, which attracted more than a million attendees. If the government had told the people to stay at home, the amplification of the COVID-19 spread would have been much weaker.

3.  缺少防护物资以及措施导致病毒在医院等工作场所传播

Workplace spread like hospitals and companies. Patients with fever and cough went to hospitals and may have spread the disease to health workers, who often work at multiple health facilities and unknowingly helped the spread of the coronavirus.

4. 早期病毒检测门槛过高，许多感染者没有机会接受检测

Patients without symptoms who cannot be detected without thorough testing. The government issued limitations on who can get the test, which was too strict at first and many people with symptoms were not sure if they had COVID-19 or other diseases.

"During a 3-week period in late February to early March, the number of U.S. COVID-19 cases increased more than 1,000-fold," the report noted.

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