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Dr. Tony Holtzman speaks about the federal government response to the coronavirus pandemic during a virtual presentation hosted by Historic Saranac Lake on Tuesday.
(Enterprise photo â Elizabeth Izzo) SARANAC LAKE As he watched the coronavirus spread throughout the United States, with this country surpassing all others in the number of cases reported, Dr. Tony Holtzman sought to answer a question. “How can it be that the wealthiest country in the world, and among the most technologically advanced countries in the world, fared so badly?” asked the emeritus professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and author of Adirondack historical fiction.
25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped Chinaâs Grasp
The most famous doctor in China was on an urgent mission.
Celebrated as the hero who helped uncover the SARS epidemic
17 years ago, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, now 84, was under orders to rush to Wuhan, a city in central China, and investigate a strange new coronavirus. His assistant photographed the doctor on the night train, eyes closed in thought, an image that would later rocket around China and burnish Dr. Zhongâs reputation as the nationâs medic riding to the rescue.
Chinaâs official history now portrays Dr. Zhongâs trip as the cinematic turning point in an ultimately triumphant war against Covid-19, when he discovered the virus was spreading dangerously and sped to Beijing to sound the alarm. Four days later, on Jan. 23, Chinaâs leader, Xi Jinping, sealed off Wuhan.
Robert Gallo of the UM School of Medicine Institute of Human Virology and Global Virus Network Awarded Top Life Sciences and Medicine Prize from China
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BALTIMORE, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/
Robert C. Gallo, MD, The Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, co-founder and director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and co-founder and international scientific advisor of the Global Virus Network, was awarded the VCANBIO Award for Biosciences and Medicine, a significant and authoritative award in the life sciences and medicine field of China. The elite Prize is jointly presented by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the VCANBIO CELL & GENE ENGINEERING CORP, LTD to push forward scientific research, technological innovation and continuous development in the life sciences and medicine field of China.