.@JoeBiden Spreads Misinformation About Trump and the WHO Amid Coronavirus pjmedia.com/election/joe-b… #Election2020 via @pjmedia_com
PolitiFact helped dispel Biden's misinformation, rating his claim "false." The U.S. did not "reject" the WHO test because the WHO never offered it to the CDC in the first place.
"The countries WHO helped are ones that lack the virology lab horsepower that exists across the United States," PolitiFact reported. The WHO's American arm said it focused its efforts on "countries with the weakest health systems."
"No discussions occurred between WHO and CDC about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the United States," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told PolitiFact.
"This is consistent with experience since the United States does not ordinarily rely on WHO for reagents or diagnostic tests because of sufficient domestic capacity."
