Posted on 09/01/2020 7:59:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said during the organization's latest Tuesday virtual news conference from its Geneva headquarters that "no country can just pretend the pandemic is over" as governments around the world ease social distancing restrictions and start to send children back to the classroom.
It's just the latest example of Dr. Tedros implicitly criticizing President Trump and his handling of the US outbreak, after Trump recently insisted that the virus is "under control" despite flare-ups in Sun Belt states.
"The more control countries have over the virus, the more they can open up. Opening up without having control is a recipe for disaster. It's not one size fits all, it's not all or nothing," Tedros said.
Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://t.co/FvolgDSVhM World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) August 31, 2020
Dr. Tedros described "four essential things that all countries, communities, and individuals must focus on to take control" of the virus before they start to unwind their emergency measures.
First, prevent amplifying events. COVID-19 spreads very efficiently among clusters of people.
Second, reduce deaths by protecting vulnerable groups, including older people, those with underlying conditions, and essential workers.
Third, individuals must play their part by taking the measures we know work to protect themselves and others stay at least one meter away from others, clean your hands regularly, practice respiratory etiquette, and wear a mask.
And fourth, governments must take tailored actions to find, isolate, test, and care for cases, and trace and quarantine contacts. Widespread stay-at-home orders can be avoided if countries take temporary and geographically-targeted interventions.
Individuals can minimize their chances of infection by avoiding the "three Cs", Dr. Tedros said: closed spaces, crowded places, and close-contact environments.
Tedros also said countries should protect the most vulnerable people, including the elderly, those with underlying conditions, and essential workers to help save lives.
"If countries are serious about opening up, they must be serious about suppressing transmission and saving lives," he said. "This may seem like an impossible balance, but it's not. It can be done and it has been done."
The latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows more than 25 million people have been infected by COVID-19 and 848,000 have been killed globally. The US has been the epicenter of cases, reporting 6 million, along with most deaths, at 184,441.
Trump, who has a presidential election to win on Nov. 3, has continued to push headlines about 'breakthrough' treatments - example: convalescent plasma - and a stream of optimistic vaccine headlines as a way to pump markets and boost optimism among increasingly exasperated consumers as the president struggles to revitalize the American economy after one of the most brutal crashes in recent memory.
Dr. Tedros's remarks come as more public health 'experts' - including former FDA head Dr. Scott Gottlieb - slam President Trump for flirting with a new strategy of "herd immunity". Such a strategy would, in theory, avert any future lockdowns or rollbacks of virus-inspired restrictions in favor of pushing ahead with reopening the economy while protecting the most vulnerable patients. While the White House has denied claims that it is shifting its strategy, a new advisor named Dr. Scott Atlas is purportedly pushing the US to mimic the approach embraced by Sweden.
How’s Sweden doing? ;)
Isn’t WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus the hand-picked stooge of China? Why should anyone believe him?
Why not? There’s been so much pretending about COVID already.
I lost all respect for the WHO over a decade ago when I found out how they rated countries for their quality of health care and why the US was so far down the list.
They are a political organization. Nothing more.
Who?????
I’m not a medical expert, and the information is vast and conflicting. What I think I have figured out is that covid-19 is a corona virus, just like the common cold. Herd immunity can happen to some extent, but not like other virii. Reinfections can and do happen with covid-19. It isn’t going away any time soon.
We either learn to live with it, or we die trying to hide from it. Given that 6% of the deaths happened to otherwise healthy people, I’m not afraid. Let ‘er rip tater chip.
Yes... A country can. And if the United States says it’s over... It’s over.
Hey Tedros,
A pandemic kills WAY more than 9000 out of 300,000,000 people.
This is NOT a pandemic. Its a rough chest cold that you idiots are dressing up as a pandemic in order to screw with an upcoming election, mess with the US economy and manipulate control over its people.
Karl Denninger has been doing a great job analyzing the data and according to what he’s seeing, herd suppression is definitely working. Not a single state or county is disproving the hypothesis. Of course, Karl is kind of pissed off at the world (he is in general, but moreso with the Branch Covidian nonsense) so he’s not posting a lot of the in-depth data stuff to anyone except on his own forum.
It would have been over if you didn’t quarantine WELL PEOPLE. This is what’s causing a second wave.
RE: Karl Denninger has been doing a great job analyzing the data and according to what hes seeing, herd suppression is definitely working.
A link to his work will be useful for the rest of us, thank you.
At some point Switzerland’s “neutrality” has to be called out for harboring criminals such as the World Health Organization.
Sweden? Its doing great! Thanks for asking?
This is his website: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker
There is a lot of info in his forum here:
http://tickerforum.org/akcs-www?forum=MaskHoles
He’s abrasive, occasionally childish, and he blames Trump for stuff, (I think he’s being unreasonable, but he’s always been consistently unreasonable) but despite his faults, he’s a brilliant guy with an incredible mind who is a whiz with numbers and is knowledgeable about enough things that his opinion is always worth a look. I think he’s built a solid foundation of facts here.
OK, Glendower.
So...it is over?
WHO Credibility Level - ZERO
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