I don't care if the USA office was being torn down and moved to Jerusalem, the NEED to know if another virus like SARS was coming out of a deprived food market no longer receiving US agricultural goods NEEDED TO BE CONTINUED even if it meant working out of the basement of the food market!

March 22, 2020
By Marisa Taylor

Washington - Several months before (click here) the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.

The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”...