When the history is written of how America handled the global era’s first real pandemic, March 6 will leap out of the timeline. That was the day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. His foray to the world’s best disease research body was meant to showcase that America had everything under control. It came midway between the time he was still denying the coronavirus posed a threat and the moment he said he had always known it could ravage America.
當歷史記載美國如何應對這場全球化時代第一次真正的大流行病時,3月6日這一天將非常突出。這一天,唐納•川普(Donald Trump)訪問了位於亞特蘭大的美國疾病控制和預防中心(CDC)。他突然造訪這個世界上最好的疾病研究機構,意在向世人展示一切都盡在美國的掌控之中。在他這次造訪美國疾控中心之前,他還在否認新冠病毒構成威脅,而在這之後,他則表示,他一直都知道這種病毒可能會對美國造成重創。