I find comments like these to be so unhelpful. Many WHO-participating countries have done a much better job handling COVID-19 than the U.S. Pinning blame on the WHO, who the U.S. pulled out of this year, just creates a convenient scapegoat & feeds into anti-WHO crackpot theories.https://twitter.com/kprather88/status/1337842302765559810 …
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Replying to @Ryan_Mac_Phd
Many who did better explicitly didn’t listen to WHO advice as is, though, and that absolutely needs fixing. “To do better, emulate other countries who didn’t listen to the World Health Organization” really isn’t the position we want to find ourselves in ever again.
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Replying to @zeynep @Ryan_Mac_Phd
But the US pretty much didn’t listen to the WHO?
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Replying to @SaskiaPopescu @Ryan_Mac_Phd
That’s true! We failed in our particular way. But so did the WHO and it has to be fixed. It really matters for LMIC countries that can’t/don’t just defy WHO and go their own way like South Korea or Japan. We still see so much bad advice from the top. Check the WHO feed.
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Replying to @zeynep @SaskiaPopescu
To me, it's just looking for a convenient scapegoat or boogeyman. If we want to critique the WHO, it'd be helpful if enacted simple and science-supported public health measures that they've advocated for. We haven't.
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Replying to @Ryan_Mac_Phd @SaskiaPopescu
“We the US administration” yes. Why would that apply to the rest of us concerned about avoiding a repeat? It was ~10 days ago we got “no masks necessary indoors if 3 feet apart” corrected. I have doc friends in LMIC countries who, until ten days ago, would repeat that to people.
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I don’t think there’s any disagreement on how this administration has failed. But there are billions of other people in the world who are being told not to wear masks indoors if separated by a mere meter. Lots of jurisdictions completely use World Health Organization guidelines.
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But I would add is I don’t think the problem is the communication team or the public facing scientists. I’d wager they may even agree. It’s a structural problem with a few committees being dominated by a few men who refuse to have an evidence-based and pandemic appropriate speed.
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Replying to @zeynep @Ryan_Mac_Phd
Lol are you talking about the US? (Kidding)
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