“even many of its supporters have been frustrated by the [World Health] organization’s secrecy, its public praise for China and its quiet concessions. Those decisions have indirectly helped Beijing to whitewash its early failures in handling the outbreak.” nytimes.com/2020/11/02/wor…
.@WHO “pushed misleading and contradictory information about the risk of [#coronavirus] spread from symptomless carriers. ... Top health officials encouraged travel as usual, advice that was based on politics and economics, not science.“ nytimes.com/2020/11/02/wor…
“That was wrong. China’s surveillance system had failed to spot the outbreak, a failure that experts now say allowed its spread to accelerate. Asked to explain the discrepancy, the @WHO referred questions to #China.“ nytimes.com/2020/11/02/wor…
“It was an absolute whitewash,” said Lawrence O. Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University. “But the answer was, that was the best they could negotiate with #Xi Jinping.”
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“‘You’d have to look at the terms of reference,’ one of the scientists replied, a senior American health official recalled. The ‘terms of reference’ was a document spelling out the mission’s rules. The Americans had never seen it.” nytimes.com/2020/11/02/wor…
“The health organization’s public statements suggested that the animal-source investigation was well underway.
If that was true, the Americans realized that they were on the outside, #blocked from the investigation #by #China.” nytimes.com/2020/11/02/wor…
If that was true, the Americans realized that they were on the outside, #blocked from the investigation #by #China.” nytimes.com/2020/11/02/wor…
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