Months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing.<br /><br />According to Reuters, the job of Dr. Linda Quick was to help detect disease outbreaks in China.<br /><br />The American disease expert was a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency.<br /><br />Sources say she left her post in July. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November.
