WaPo reporting yest more than a dozen U.S. researchers, MDs & public health experts-many from CDC-were @ WHO in Geneva as Covid broke & transmitted real-time info @ its discovery & spread in China to the Trump admin.
Go figure.. #MondayMorning washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Go figure.. #MondayMorning washingtonpost.com/world/national…
2-"“More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and
3-"transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials.
4-“A number of CDC staff members are regularly detailed to work at the WHO in Geneva as part of a rotation that has operated for years. Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.
5-“In a statement provided to The Washington Post after online publication of this article, Caitlin B. Oakley, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed that in January, HHS had 17 staff members, including 16 from the CDC, at the WHO,
6-"‘working on a variety of programs, including covid-19 and Ebola.’ She emphasized that the staff members were not ‘decision-makers.’ “‘Furthermore, I’d add that just because you have Americans embedded in WHO providing technical assistance does not change the information you
7-"are getting from WHO leadership,’ Oakley said in an email. ‘We have learned now that WHO information was incorrect and relied too heavily on China.’
8-"Questioning why the WHO ‘did not press China harder,’ she said that ‘the lack of transparency aided and abided by WHO leadership hampered understanding of the virus and delayed the global response.’”
