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Wellcome Trust‘s @JeremyFarrar says @WHO „needs more resources, not less, if we’re to have the best chance of bringing this pandemic to an end.“ Praises WHO: „No other organisation can do what they do and we owe them all our respect, thanks and gratitude.“
„Global cooperation, guided by the WHO, is key if we’re to end this pandemic as quickly as possible, save as many lives as possible and get the world back to some sense of normality. ...
„We urge all nations to increase their support for WHO at this time of global emergency.”
Full statement is up here now: wellcome.ac.uk/press-release/…
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#covid19 presser @WHO starts with @DrTedros saying almost 2,5 million cases have now been reported to WHO and more than 160,000 deaths. "We see different trends in different regions and even within regions”, he says.
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@WHO @DrTedros "Most countries are still in the early stages of their epidemics”, says @DrTedros. In other places that were affected early by #covid19, there is a resurgence in cases. "Make no mistake: we have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time."
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#Covid19 @WHO presser starts with @DrTedros thanking musicians, comedians and humanitarians who were involved in Saturday’s concert “One World, Together at Home”. It raised more than 127 million dollars, he says, incl. 55 million dollars for @WHO's solidarity fund.
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Just for the record (because the question keeps coming up): I don‘t think many - if any - real experts were convinced in early January that there was no human-to-human transmission of #SARSCoV2 just because China said so.
This is from a #covid19 story @sciencecohen, @dnormile and I published back on 9 January! Every researcher I talked to for that story (incl. @PeterDaszak and @MarionKoopmans quoted here) was skeptical about claim of no human-to-human transmission.
To clarify: As several people have pointed out, China said there was no evidence for human-to-human transmission, not that that could be ruled out. I‘m just pointing out that experts assumed from the start that h2h transmission was likely.
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