What& #39;s so tragic is that this was entirely predictable, and we didn& #39;t manage to stop it from happening. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/24/coronavirus-rural-america-outbreaks/?arc404=true">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...

People are remarking on my choice of the word "we".

I& #39;m an epidemiologist. As such, it& #39;s my job to prevent things like this from happening. It was entirely avoidable; just look at Vietnam or South Korea or New Zealand or Mongolia. But it happened nonetheless.

It wasn& #39;t for lack of knowing what to do. We *knew* what to do.

But what I failed to anticipate was the degree of political polarization that would emerge around very existence and severity of the disease, and all of the problems that this would create.

It& #39;s heartbreaking.