Letters to the Editor: Trump has managed to save some species. They just cause diseases

To the editor: President Trump’s righteous indignation over Norway’s (or is it Greenland’s?) Nobel Committee once more depriving him of its Peace Prize may be assuaged have been he to be awarded the Indianapolis Prize as a substitute. Sometimes called “the Nobel Prize of animal conservation,” this $250,000 award honors conservationists who’ve “achieved main victories in advancing the sustainability of an animal species or group of species.”

Let’s say the award have been expanded past animals. In fact, Trump must share it with Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., since they’re each equally accountable for salvaging a number of species from the brink of extinction. Most notably, that features coronaviruses in addition to morbillivirus and enterovirus C species that trigger measles and polio (“A measles resurgence has put the U.S. at risk of losing its ‘elimination’ status,” Jan. 22).

Don Paglia, Little River, Calif.