WHO blasts China for withholding info on COVID origin after data pulled offline

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The World Health Organization (WHO) took aim at Chinese officials for withholding information that could shed light on the origin of COVID-19.

"These data could have — and should have — been shared three years ago," WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday, according to a report from the New York Times.

Ghebreyesus' comments come after Chinese data that first became available in January was suddenly pulled offline after researchers offered to collaborate with Chinese scientists to analyze the data.

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Whereas in early 2020, this same Tedros was quoted in the media as follows:

 

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As a mysterious virus spread through Wuhan last month, the World Health Organization had a message: China has got this.

 

And as the coronavirus swept across the Chinese heartland and jumped to other nations, the WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, applauded the “transparency” of the Chinese response.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-officials-note-serious-problems-in-coronavirus-response-the-world-health-organization-keeps-praising-them/2020/02/08/b663dd7c-4834-11ea-91ab-ce439aa5c7c1_story.html

 

Like so many others at the heart of this unprecedented public health policy disaster, Tedros is looking for the lifeboats.

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5 hours ago, Eleftheros said:

Whereas in early 2020, this same Tedros was quoted in the media as follows:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-officials-note-serious-problems-in-coronavirus-response-the-world-health-organization-keeps-praising-them/2020/02/08/b663dd7c-4834-11ea-91ab-ce439aa5c7c1_story.html

 

Like so many others at the heart of this unprecedented public health policy disaster, Tedros is looking for the lifeboats.

At the time, his goal may have been to encourage Chinese cooperation. It may have been a forlorn hope, but worth a shot.

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New evidence seems to implicate "Racoon dogs" sold in Wuhan market..........

 

.......findings reported last week bolstered the market theory. Mining a trove of genetic data taken from swabs at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan in early 2020, virus experts said they found samples containing genetic material from both the coronavirus and illegally traded raccoon dogs. The finding, while hardly conclusive, pointed to an infected animal.

 

The study also said the virus was unlikely to have evolved in the course of certain laboratory experiments.

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world

[Eleftheros]

4 hours ago, placeholder said:

At the time, his goal may have been to encourage Chinese cooperation. It may have been a forlorn hope, but worth a shot.

Well, that's one reading of the situation.

 

Given, though that the WHO allowed itself to be guided by the Chinese state apparatus into tweeting as late as January 2020 that Covid-19 was not expected to be transmitted from human to human, I think it is the wrong reading.

 

 

A better reading, I think, would be that the WHO is a basically non-functional bureaucracy led by a blithering incompetent.