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  • When Holden Thorp became editor in chief of Science in October 2019, he wasn’t planning to write editorials challenging the US president during an international crisis But as the current pandemic began to unfold, Thorp was triggered by President Donald J Trump’s inaccurate comparisons of COVID-19—the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2—to the flu and the unrealistic expectations he put on vaccine developers and pharmaceutical companies Thorp and his editorial team felt that Trump’s denial of what scientists had been saying “was just so dangerous that we wouldn’t be doing our job if we didn’t speak out,” he says And so he has, by writing a series of editorials about the role of science in addressing the pandemic One of the editorials was widely circulated and cited in the Washington Post and the New York Times—not common for an editorial in a research journal Thorp hopes that the editorials
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  • C&EN_Global_Enterprise
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  • WHO
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  • C&EN talks with Holden Thorp
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  • #133084
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  • 2020

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