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> No, the WHO correctly noted at the time that they didn't have sufficient evidence to conclude it was occurring. This is a stretch. Lookup timelines of China'
by throwawaysea 7y ago
> No, the WHO correctly noted at the time that they didn't have sufficient evidence to conclude it was occurring.
This is a stretch. Lookup timelines of China's handling of this issue. For instance from https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/ https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas.... Human to human transmission was observed in the second week of December and the WHO continued denying this was the case in mid-January.
Look at the WHO's tweet from January 14th - https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 - "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China". That's not them lacking evidence to conclude on it, that's them irresponsibly parroting Beijing propaganda.
That's exactly why Taiwan has also been criticizing the WHO - see https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68 https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6.... "Health officials in Taipei said they alerted the WHO at the end of December about the risk of human-to-human transmission of the new virus but said its concerns were not passed on to other countries."
- ceejayoz 7y agoThe WHO doesn't have a CIA. They rely on member nations for their information. Taiwan's well-founded suspicions are still not proof; the NRO article you're citing alleges China lied to the WHO to conceal human-to-human transmission.