Posted on 06/02/2020 10:37:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The World Health Organization struggled to get needed information from China during critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recordings of internal meetings that contradict the organisation’s public praise of Beijing’s response to the outbreak.
The recordings, obtained by the Associated Press (AP), show officials complaining in meetings during the week of 6 January that Beijing was not sharing data needed to evaluate the risk of the virus to the rest of the world. It was not until 20 January that China confirmed coronavirus was contagious and 30 January that the WHO declared a global emergency.
“We’re going on very minimal information,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist and the WHO technical lead for Covid-19, according to the AP. “It’s clearly not enough for you to do proper planning.”
The WHO’s top official in China, Gauden Galea, said in one of the recordings: “We’re currently at the stage where yes, they’re giving it to us 15 minutes before it appears on CCTV [Chinese state TV].”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Fauxcy’s fault.
Let me see if I understand. China didn’t talk to themselves?
“The World Health Organization struggled to get needed information from China during critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic”
But what did WHO do to get the information?
Did they do their job?
Yeah right as soon as the free money disappears
PING
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The World Health Organization struggled to get needed information from China during critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recordings of internal meetings that contradict the organisation’s public praise of Beijing’s response to the outbreak.
The recordings, obtained by the Associated Press (AP), show officials complaining in meetings during the week of 6 January that Beijing was not sharing data needed to evaluate the risk of the virus to the rest of the world. It was not until 20 January that China confirmed coronavirus was contagious and 30 January that the WHO declared a global emergency.
A reasonable person could easily regard this and many of China’s activities around this outbreak as acts of war.
YET, the WHOchina reported glowingly how great of a job WHOchina was doing. Blow it out your spinky-trumpet you bumbling commie-spike lickers!
WHO....covered for the ChiComs.
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