Richard Horton
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Richard Horton is the editor of The Lancet, a prominent medical journal, and he advocates for a thorough examination of the failures in pandemic preparedness and response. This interview reveals his commitment to protecting public health and holding authorities accountable, positioning him as a trusted voice in the medical community.
“I think the reason was twofold. First of all, let's just compare briefly China's response with our response. In China, the entire way they looked at this epidemic was through the lens of SARS. And in 2002-2003, that was almost like another Tiananmen Square moment.”
“Yes, that is very true. I would also say that it's one of the reasons why I'm very angry about this whole story. I was diagnosed over a year ago with stage three melanoma and he had a pretty challenging surgery. And I'm still on immunotherapy treatment.”
“Yeah, my parents didn't tell me I was the parents who brought me up didn't tell me that I was adopted. That is perfectly true. I don't think it was that I couldn't believe. I do think, though, that I felt a little bit of an outsider that somehow who was on the outside of a system looking in on the outside of a family looking in.”
“In the last week of January, published five risk papers in the Lancet that really set out the story of what happened in the last three months. And very briefly, what those underlined was that there was this new virus that was coming out of China. There was no treatment for that virus. The number of deaths was rising dramatically.”
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