"Health officials in Taipei said they alerted the WHO at the end of December about the risk of human-to-human transmission of the new virus but said its concerns were not passed on to other countries."https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68 …
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Exactly what is the point of this kind of “in hindsight” comment other than provoking useless political comments?
It suggests ways to improve in the future. For example, by granting Taiwan WHO membership.
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Can’t Taiwan communicate with other countries directly? Why do we need the WHO?
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It is called "coordination". Anyone that has ever worked successfully with a group of people knows what that word means.
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I agree but China is scary and powerful here, I'm sure you already saw -->https://twitter.com/ezracheungtoto/status/1243869774410469376 …
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Yeah, very apolitical statement.
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WHO took far too long to declare a pandemic. Part of it may be the perceived over-reaction to H1N1 in 2009. Also maybe not wanting to offend China. If WHO had declared pandemic at end of Jan, I bet Europe and US would have acted quicker.
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WHO declared a pandemic on 11 March. On 30 Jan they declared it a PHEIC - but this doesn't have the same sense of urgency imho. Perhaps the pandemic call could not be made that early due to semantics - but a call of "probable pandemic" would have focused minds more I think.
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Politically de facto impossible
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Had Taiwan been a member of the WHO in January, its warnings might have been heeded and hundreds of thousands of people, now dead or doomed to die, might have been saved instead. That strikes me as a practical agenda, not a political one.
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Wow, does Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has membership too? Just curious.
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Good try. Does PRC have the governances of Taiwan? If not, then how do they represent Taiwan? I think that all the countries you mentioned governed by United Kingdom are by mutual consensus.
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