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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Apr 2020

    New from me: We must recognize that the WHO failed but also that President Trump wants to break it even further. I get the impulse to defend the WHO wholesale but that doesn't help us fix this. If the WHO had stepped up, we might have avoided a pandemic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world-health-organization-failed/610063/ …pic.twitter.com/HjL2bgwmLI

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Apr 2020

        A problem that preceded (and made possible) Trump is a lack of recognition how things were *already* broken. That's why nostalgia or restoration attempts will not get us out of here. We must understand past failures but also resist attempts to make things even worse. It's hard.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Apr 2020

        So, yes defunding the WHO is a terrible idea—it's the US wanting to be the bigger bully. But it's also not a coincidence that the countries with success against COVID like Hong Kong and Taiwan have consistently defied WHO's official positions and advice. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world-health-organization-failed/610063/ …pic.twitter.com/r4Xg6ZvzKP

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Apr 2020

        Very few like this message.Many in the US are rightfully focused on how the US government failed, and don't want to let Trump scapegoat. But, look, it's groundhog day in a swamp. Everything we don't correctly diagnose and try to fix, including the WHO, just means we keep sinking.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Apr 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted spanna65

        This isn't an uncommon response. People don't want to hear the messy, full truth because it seems like it's helping Trump. But the failings we did not fix before *are* one big reason 2016 happened in the first place. Denial or nostalgia isn't a way out.https://twitter.com/spanna65/status/1250812187830112258 …

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        spanna65 @spanna65
        Replying to @MarietjeSchaake @EliotHiggins @zeynep
        The WHO cannot get involved in any country’s affairs, it can only advise. It cannot compel any country or government to comply with its wishes, it must be invited by governments before it can even step foot in a country. Stop carrying Trumps water.
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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Apr 2020

        So, many people are saying if the WHO really failed this time, why try to save it? Because a world without a functioning WHO is at much greater risk—including for future pandemics. There's no comparable organization with the infrastructure and accumulated know-how in 194 nations.

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      2. ありがとう  🇧🇼‏ @zackchapepa 16 Apr 2020

        That's a bit too late, I think. Influence will be covered another time. This time containment is the real issue, and getting back to work.

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      2. Ferdi F.Z.‏ @f_fz 16 Apr 2020
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        Good direction of thinking, but without researching deeply myself I'm tempted to ask: did the WHO have enough authority in the first place? (To be able to effectively prevent pandemic?)

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      3. Conservative X‏ @Conservative_X1 16 Apr 2020
        Replying to @f_fz @zeynep

        They had the authority to recommend all air travel out of China be stopped. Instead of doing that, they announced on 2/2 that banning air travel was unnecessary.

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      2. Boosted Kraken  💉 💉 💉‏ @twidark1 16 Apr 2020
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        WHO were duped by the Chinese government in the first weeks of January, but they figured it out quickly. They had a COVID-19 emergency meeting on Jan 22. On Jan 23 the WHO announced danger for global epidemic, person-to-person transmission and need for aggressive containment.

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      3. Boosted Kraken  💉 💉 💉‏ @twidark1 16 Apr 2020
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        And then they started manufacturing COVID-19 tests (the ones that actually work) at large scale. I wish our government had "failed" like the WHO...

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