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    1. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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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        4. 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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        1. single-use accordion (LA 1/1-1/15)‏ @babarganesh 16 Apr 2020
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          great, all we have to say is "we'll support funding the WHO but the head has to go"

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        1. Bob (Moderna #3) Kerns‏ @BobKerns 16 Apr 2020
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          Trump's actions are designed to make WHO *less* independent. I think the WHO, like a lot of politicians, was afraid of being seen as alarmist. We don't deal well with low-probability, high-consequence risks.

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        1. Kasta Diva‏ @SouthernVOID 16 Apr 2020
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          Interesting, but I can partially agree. Pointing in the US direction right now turns into a futile discussion. The core of the matter is the @WHO. As the old memes say, they had one job. Look at us all now. Countless lives would, could and should have been saved.

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        1. “lies after lies”  😷  🖐🏾‏ @ah_sing_in_hk 16 Apr 2020
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          ...In India, the government has politely sidestepped the periodic “advice” from the WHO and, instead, leaned on the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)...https://indianexpress.com/article/india/donald-trump-who-aid-india-coronavirus-6354007/ …

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        1. レモン 🍋【コロナのバカーー ‼】‏ @lemontw_ 16 Apr 2020
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          Taiwan's govt actually told people that "The healthy public and students don’t need to wear face masks." until recently. https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/ZlJrIunqRjM49LIBn8p6eA?typeid=158 …

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        2. EIFY‏ @EIFY 16 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @jeremyphoward

          Neither WHO nor China said "there was no human-to-human transmission". It's a myth perpetuated by the West to scapegoat China.

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        3. Jeremy Howard‏ @jeremyphoward 16 Apr 2020
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          Jeremy Howard Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO)

          Really?https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 …

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          Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG
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