For the People: A Lesson from the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak

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Yue Zhang

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Yue Zhang
Shenzhen Futian Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Shenzhen, China

A B S T R A C T

The recent coronavirus outbreak in China has become a global public health emergency. It is tragic, and partly a result of some of the recent scientific scandals, that the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has happened in China. Unquestionably, it is a failure of research ethics and the integrity of publication. Many high-ranking officers and expert elites are now trying to shirk responsibility. If top officers become “predatory”, nobody dares speak out. People are confused by the paradox: people in high-ranking and respected positions with distinguished academic backgrounds also seems to refined egoism (refined egoism is characterized by their sophistication, selfishness, myopia and changeability of refined egoists), an intelligent and judicious blend of self-interest and/or selfishness). People are calling for the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) China to resign due to non-professional actions or incompetence, otherwise the government should fire him failed in his responsibility. So far, several directors have been fired because they were incompetent for their position in the health-care bureaus of big cities in Hubei Province. Politics can have a place in administration but should be kept away from the academy itself. To obtain high-rank officer in academy should be appointed away from connections with competing interests. Otherwise, she/he should step down.

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Publication history

Received: Thu 13, Feb 2020
Accepted: Tue 25, Feb 2020
Published: Wed 04, Mar 2020

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© 2023 Yue Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.CMCR.2020.01.01