News Why this Harvard doctor is optimistic about US overcoming COVID-19 despite ‘epidemic of mistrust’ November 25, 2020 Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY Comments Off on Why this Harvard doctor is optimistic about US overcoming COVID-19 despite ‘epidemic of mistrust’ Paul Farmer has seen the effect of Haiti's earthquake, Rwanda's genocide and West Africa's Ebola outbreak. They show how the US could handle COVID.