On June 5, 1981, the CDC reported the first AIDS cases. Epidemiologist James Curran was soon asked to investigate. Now dean of Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, he reflects on the disease that roiled the world and defined his career.
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Caption Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey was a fixture at Gov. Brian Kemp’s COVID-19 press briefings. Credit: Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder (January 2021)
The advisory board for the state’s public health agency plans to resume its regular public meetings this fall after not holding any since before the COVID-19 pandemic first reached Georgia early last year.
The public health board met virtually during a special meeting Tuesday to approve a bond spending package. The public could listen to the meeting by phone.
It was the nine-member public health board’s first gathering since February 2020, when no one in Georgia had yet tested positive for coronavirus. The emphasis at the time was still on monitoring people who had recently traveled to China.
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I have pointed out the inherent anti-Americanism of James Curran, Professor of Modern History at Sydney University, a few timesbefore. Today he returns with more of the same:
Robert Menzies blundered horribly when he back Britain in the Suez crisis.
The parallels today with Australia’s “questions of identity” regarding China are “uncomfortable”.
“Morrison is now as fixated on the Americans as Menzies was on the British.”
Readers will recall I recently took on this argument when it was also made by Niall Fergusson and equally filled with errors:
A Taiwan conflict could be the equivalent of the Suez crisis for the British Empire when it was exposed as a paper tiger.
2021-05-12 07:06:12 GMT2021-05-12 15:06:12(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CANBERRA, May 12 (Xinhua) Australian politicians should be cautious with their words and avoid further tension with China, some experts recently urged.
James Curran, a professor of modern history at Sydney University, said that the escalation in Australian rhetoric is another capstone in a rolling narrative of the China threat . Yet no other country is using this language. Canberra is now out ahead even of the Americans, he said in an opinion piece carried by the Australian Financial Review on Monday.
Echoing Curran s comments, Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign minister who is now honorary professor at the Australian National University (ANU), warned policymakers to avoid excessive zeal in their comments on China.