美媒爆料：CDC被“封口”，美国抗疫正被政治左右！

据美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学数据，截至北京时间22日15时32分，美国新冠肺炎确诊病例已超157万，达1,577,758例，死亡94,729例。

疫情仍在蔓延，但随着美国政府迫切想要推进复工进程的决心日盛，不少州出现了捏造、篡改新冠病毒检测数据的消息，而相关领域专家的声音却得不到重视，甚至被迫“封口”。这让更多的民众感到担忧，美国抗疫正在被政治操纵。

近日，美国媒体向大众揭露了这场“美式抗疫”的乱象。

#1.

 CDC官员：“我们被封口了” 

据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）周三披露，美国疾控中心内部多名官员在采访中表达了对美国疫情控制的担忧。不少官员认为，美国疾控中心为应对全球疫情所做的努力“受到白宫的阻碍”，而白宫的决定往往是出自政治考量而非由科学领导。

更有一名接受采访的官员直言不讳：“我们已经被封口了”。

The U.S. is leading the world in COVID-19 infections and deaths, totaling nearly 1.6 million and 95,000 respectively.

Staff members in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the White House has been driven by politics rather than science in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a CNN report revealed on Wednesday.

In interviews with CNN, CDC officials said the agency's efforts to address the global outbreak "have been hamstrung by a White House whose decisions are driven by politics rather than science," the report said.

此外，疾控中心一位高级官员批评联邦政府在3月疫情全球蔓延的关键期选择将重点放在了中国而不是欧洲上。

他表示，在欧洲确诊病例增多的情况下，尽管疾控中心早在3月2日就已经向联邦政府发出警告，称冠状病毒正在全球迅速传播，需要对欧洲疫情保持高度警惕，但白宫对此则表示“不要惹怒欧洲，我们正盯着中国呢”。

由于缺乏及时的隔离举措，大量欧洲病例的输入加剧了新冠病毒在美扩散，美国疫情迅速恶化，直到3月11日，特朗普才宣布对欧洲国家实施严格的旅行限制。

一名疾控中心现任官员强调：“我们一直感到困惑”，“根据我们了解和给出的建议，联邦政府本可以更早采取行动，那会挽救更多生命。”

美国埃默里大学公共卫生学院的院长科伦认为，在这次抗疫过程中，美国联邦政府始终漠视疾控中心所能发挥出来的巨大作用，使疾控中心成了“一个被冷落的旁观者。”这严重影响了美国的抗疫进程。

A senior CDC official also criticized the Trump administration for focusing on China instead of Europe in early March, allowing large numbers of European travelers to enter the United States when transmissions in Europe were mounting. 

"We've been muzzled," said a current CDC official. "What's tough is that if we would have acted earlier on what we knew and recommended, we would have saved lives and money." 

Although the CDC alerted the White House of the rapid spread of the coronavirus on March 2, Trump did not announce strict travel restrictions on more than two dozen European countries until March 11. 

"The White House was extremely focused on China and not wanting to anger Europe ... even though that's where most of our cases were originally coming from," said a CDC official.

#2.

 “粉饰太平”，多州数据造假

在疾控中心被“封口”的同时，美国多个州为了重启经济活动，甚至不惜“自欺欺人”，篡改疫情数据，企图满足白宫制定的复工指南，及早恢复生产。

据美联社19日报道，弗吉尼亚州、得克萨斯州、佛蒙特州在统计检测数据时，把新冠病毒检测和新冠病毒抗体检测同时算上。然而，前者的意义是发现当前的感染者，后者的意义是发现过去的感染者。对此，公共卫生专家表示，这种做法能使检测总数看起来“令人印象深刻”，但是却不能体现出病毒传播的实际情况。

佐治亚州是最早放松疫情管制的州之一。然而，其公共卫生部门却通过对疫情数据“做手脚”，企图给公众制造一种“疫情在好转”的错觉。据悉，该部门公布的疫情数据并没有按照时间顺序排列，而是按照病例数量降序排列的。例如，5月7日的感染总数列在4月26日数据之前，而紧跟着4月26日数据之后的却是5月3日的数据。

不仅如此，想要坚持让公众知道疫情真相的科学家，竟因拒绝配合造假而被解雇。

《今日美国》19日报道，佛罗里达州卫生部门的一名信息系统经理瑞贝卡·琼斯数月来一直为帮助民众了解当地疫情的实时状况不辞辛苦，一手建设了该州的疫情公告网页，却因拒绝按照上级指示“手动修改数据以支持该州的重启计划”被迫离职。

Several U.S. states, including Virginia, Texas, and Vermont, have been manipulating COVID-19 data for economic reopening, according to local media. It is reported that health officials in these states have been combining the results of viral tests and antibody tests, which, as health experts pointed out, makes testing goals look impressive but doesn’t provide a true picture of how the virus is spreading. 

Besides, the Department of Public Health in Georgia published a graph that showed a downward trend in new COVID-19 cases. But the data was not arranged in chronological order but in descending order. Worse still, a scientist in Florida, who developed the state’s coronavirus dashboards and maps, was fired after she refused to manipulate data.

#3.

 《柳叶刀》：把权力还给美国疾控中心！

对此，学术界率先站出来抗议。世界医学权威杂志《柳叶刀》16日公开发表文章，抨击特朗普当局让美国疾控中心噤声的行为，并就当前美国防疫出现的种种问题所凸显的抗疫不力表示不满，呼吁“把权力还给美国疾控中心”。

文章详细分析了当前美国各地防疫政策及效果，特别比较了目前仍在坚持居家令与已经放宽限制的地区感染病例增幅上的变化，表明美国各地防疫缺乏统一指挥所引发的问题。

文章认为，美国疾控中心与联邦政府之间的矛盾导致其在防疫过程中发挥的能动性被削弱，尽管疫情初期，疾控中心确有失误，但作为世界最高水准的疾控预防中心却屡遭政府官员质疑，甚至多名疾控中心官员在发表言论后遭到了警告，无法不受限制、独立发声，都将对疫情的应对造成不利影响。

最后，文章更是直接向特朗普提出警告，称未来的总统必须知晓，公共卫生领域不应该受到政党政治的干预。

On May 16, medical journal The Lancet published an editorial titled “Reviving the U.S. CDC,” criticizing Trump’s administration for reducing the CDC’s role in the coronavirus pandemic. 

“The Trump administration’s further erosion of the CDC will harm global cooperation in science and public health, as it is trying to do by defunding WHO,” the article said.

“A strong CDC is needed to respond to public health threats, both domestic and international, and to help prevent the next inevitable pandemic. Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.”

#4.

 “再见粉丝，听专家的话吧！”

美国的明星们也紧随其后，加入声援专家的队伍中来。他们开展#交出话筒活动#，呼吁联邦政府倾听权威人士的意见，并将自己的社交账号交给抗疫专家。

In the entertainment industry, some big names including Julia Roberts and Penelope Cruz have teamed up with Dr. Fauci in a campaign called “Pass the Mic.” Their social media accounts will be run temporarily by frontline health workers and experts so that their voices can be heard.

包括茱莉亚·罗伯茨、谢琳·伍德蕾、佩内洛普·克鲁兹等知名人士都决定停止更新社交账号，让专业人士对抗击疫情发声。

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