We can say the obvious: the WHO failed us. It parroted China’s coverup and lies until it was too late—including covering up the human-to-human transmission despite Taiwan informing it. The US administration wants to use that as an excuse for its own failings. Also no to that.
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Their advice has only spread of the virus. They told countries to keep travel open with China, enabling it to spread internationally.
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While praising China for closing down travel internally.
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There wasn’t clear human to human transmission. Once China had confirmed it , it informed WHO right away and WHO informed the world right away. That was January .
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As part of the UN, the WHO doesn’t have much political capital on their own. Historically, they’d lean on the US to put pressure to let investigators in and do the hard work — happened a lot under Obama. Despite that, they offered strict warnings and playbooks as of January.
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There’s also a lot involved in understanding a new virus that goes unrecognized:https://twitter.com/provisionalidea/status/1244789978263179264?s=21 …
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January was not too late . China took extreme measures and the west laughed and said over reacted . SK Japan and Singapore took it seriously and controlled it .
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James, you are very wrong! Corona originated in Wuhan Nov 17th. Announced on 31 Dec. In this period 5 Million Chinese traveled globally impacting nations. Also, this was statement made on January 14, 2020 by WHO:https://mobile.twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 …
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