The US has an outsized influece on the WHO. Dominating the whole institution from finance to its people. At the time of the outbreak, the US administration was

The US has an outsized influece on the WHO. Dominating the whole institution from finance to its people. At the time of the outbreak, the US administration was under a populist leader who saw the virus as an almost personal attack; emphasizing that mask wearing, and the implicit recognition that the virus spread by air, was a political symbol directed against him. Funny how people forget this.