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Friday, July 16 2021 - 15:18
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CGTN: U.S. ranks No.1 on COVID-19 resilience report, what a joke
BEIJING, July 16, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Bloomberg recently published its latest COVID Resilience Ranking, taking only a 
couple of indicators into consideration to jump to a hilariously irrational 
conclusion that the U.S. outcompetes all other countries in showing remarkable 
resilience in its fight against COVID-19.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3UbSxxpBY

Just as the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said, the 
so-called Covid Resilience Ranking doesn't respect science and life, and it 
even has no scruples in striking out indicators such as the number of confirmed 
cases and fatalities. It also regards lockdown, and entry and exit quarantine 
management policies as negative factors. The patently skewed positioning has 
elicited much ridicule from netizens.

"Good example of USian exceptionalism." Ricard Reeleder, a Twitter user said.

The report said the agile rollout of the U.S. messanger RNA vaccine has stemmed 
the world's worst outbreak. However, last autumn, the daily confirmed cases and 
death toll of which country petrified the world?

Many people questioned the logic behind the ranking: 

A Twitter user named William Cuming commented: " Amazing how, in the age of 
twittersphere, we have such short memories. The US, which ranks No.1, was 
building makeshift morgues due to the number of people dying...and yet it ranks 
as the best. This analysis at best undermines the integrity of this news 
service."

One can still recall the days when having failed at controlling the pandemic 
the U.S. government went out of its way to blame and smear China to divert 
attention, ignoring the advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the 
global scientific community.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the science community has been 
dedicated to the virus origins tracing. The WHO said it was "extremely 
unlikely" for the virus to have leaked from a lab. But the U.S. refused to buy 
that, and repeatedly distorted truth and veered the research work into a 
"political quagmire."

As the COVID-19 lab leak conspiracy theory gets another Western push, can 
scientific community defend the truth against it?

Back to the ranking, sharp-sighted people must make their own fair judgments. 
And Bloomberg's pro-U.S. ranking should be seen for what it is – a laughing 
stock. 

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-07-15/U-S-ranks-No-1-on-COVID-19-resilience-report-What-a-joke--11UQxVnU2Ws/index.html


SOURCE: CGTN

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