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Politico-scientific dimension of COVID-19 in the United States

 Good evening to my readers and I am happy to be back again for this post. It has been quite a hectic past few months for all including myself as we adjust to our new normal. I have been working from home since March 2020 and I don't see the end of this new normal insight.  Today my reflection is on the outcome of the just ended US election and its potential impact on public health practices in this country with particular emphasis on COVID-19.  At the start of the summer, there were multiple predictions and models on the potential second wave of COVID-19.  On daily basis, I watched multiple news conferences from "experts" with their predictions and models claiming accuracy in their predictive models. Of particular interest is the White House daily briefing on the COVID-19  Task Force response by the Trump Administration. We heard the President discussing and leading the conferences with different messages and degrees of accuracy regarding what is working and wh...