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This administration is using the WHO as a scapegoat for its mishandling of the pandemic. But I am for increasing funding to NIH.gov instead of politics ridden W
by nabaraz 6y ago
This administration is using the WHO as a scapegoat for its mishandling of the pandemic. But I am for increasing funding to NIH.gov instead of politics ridden WHO. WHO has made this crisis worse with confusion, misinformation and incompetence.
- jrochkind1 6y agoThe CDC would be a better analog to WHO. We haven't heard much about them because.... Well, it's a good thing U.S. health organizations haven't also made the crisis worse with politics-ridden confusion, misinformation, and incompetence, right?
- abeppu 6y agoBut isn't the obvious domestic institution for public health crises/epidemics the CDC, not the NIH? And hasn't the current administration interfered with the CDC's response (including e.g. stopping them from doing their own regular press briefings, removing a leading researcher after he expressed skepticism in response to the president's comments on hydrochloroquine, etc)? If your complaint is the crisis being made worse by confusion, misinformation and incompetence, I hardly see how removing resources and trying to favor hamstrung American institutions is an improvement.