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Trumps Lies About WHO and China
The WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion."
This has become a regular theme of Mr Trump's criticism of the WHO, and in his letter to its head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 18 May, he renewed this attack saying the WHO "consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier".
This has become a regular theme of Mr Trump's criticism of the WHO, and in his letter to its head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 18 May, he renewed this attack saying the WHO "consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier".
The editor of the Lancet, Richard Horton, has written a letter in response, saying: "The Lancet did not publish any report in early December 2019 about a virus spreading in Wuhan. The first reports we published were from Chinese scientists on Jan 24, 2020."
7bout the illness from the Chinese authorities.
Then, on 5 January, the WHO put out an official statement saying it had asked for more information about the illness from the Chinese authorities.
A public statement was issued by the WHO on 22 January setting out what they had discovered.
On 28 January, Dr Tedros went to Beijing to discuss the outbreak with China's leaders.
By the end of January, the WHO had declared the outbreak a public-health emergency of global concern.
has also been reported that WHO experts (drawn from 15 countries including China) met a week earlier to discuss whether to issue a global alert but could not agree among themselves.
The WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion."
This has become a regular theme of Mr Trump's criticism of the WHO, and in his letter to its head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 18 May, he renewed this attack saying the WHO "consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier".
This has become a regular theme of Mr Trump's criticism of the WHO, and in his letter to its head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 18 May, he renewed this attack saying the WHO "consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier".
The editor of the Lancet, Richard Horton, has written a letter in response, saying: "The Lancet did not publish any report in early December 2019 about a virus spreading in Wuhan. The first reports we published were from Chinese scientists on Jan 24, 2020."
7bout the illness from the Chinese authorities.
Then, on 5 January, the WHO put out an official statement saying it had asked for more information about the illness from the Chinese authorities.
A public statement was issued by the WHO on 22 January setting out what they had discovered.
On 28 January, Dr Tedros went to Beijing to discuss the outbreak with China's leaders.
By the end of January, the WHO had declared the outbreak a public-health emergency of global concern.
has also been reported that WHO experts (drawn from 15 countries including China) met a week earlier to discuss whether to issue a global alert but could not agree among themselves.
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