> when people were starting to get concerned about this strange new disease in China, the WHO announced there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission"

> when people were starting to get concerned about this strange new disease in China, the WHO announced there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission" That is an US conservative disinformation meme, this [0] was the actual WHO tweet; "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 statement only refers to those particular preliminary investigations, yielding no clear evidence. It's very specific and scientific language, that many news pundits just chose to read and interpret in the most generalized way possible to get their sensationalist outrage headline of "WHO says there is no evidence for H2H!". There is a similar disinformation meme out about the WHO and CDC allegedly saying "masks don't help and people shouldn't wear them!", when the actual WHO and CDC statements were about prioritizing masks, as in respirators, for health care workers at the front, instead of the general public buying up all the supplies of them in panic. A bit part of that was very unclear messaging by a whole lot of authorities and governments, where to this day nobody makes much of a distinction between "mask", as in any kind of face covering, and "mask" as in actual medical respirator like a FFP2/N95. [0] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152