As ABC News Nightline went to a single-issue format this week, focused on the unfolding coronavirus crisis, one of its contributors is the network’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jennifer …
It’s not necessarily an easy task, as the message to the public has been muddled in parts of the media and at the highest levels of government. It’s also a rapidly moving, complicated story, one that demands context and perspective.
DEADLINE: Do you think that if there was wider availability of testing weeks ago, that could have prevented the spread? ASHTON: That was 10 years ago. So there are a lot of things that are different today. I just came from my office after seeing patients for three hours. And I had a couple of patients say the exact same thing [about media coverage]. And I said, ‘Well, when we report that a country like Italy shut down, we’re not making this up.” My daughter goes to Harvard. Harvard just canceled the rest of the academic year.
ASHTON: I think it has been sub-optimal across both political parties, to be honest with you. Now with this being said, I really try to stay in my lane, which is a medical lane. So just as I wouldn’t comment really on politics, I don’t think that politicians should comment on medicine. I think they should let doctors comment on medical crises. And I think that sometimes that hasn’t happened, whether it’s on a very local level or whether it’s on a bigger level.
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