Posted on 03/25/2020 4:59:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Geneva (AFP) - The UN's health agency has faced criticism in the past for overreacting and for moving too slowly in fighting epidemics, but it has rarely faced as much scrutiny as with the coronavirus pandemic.
The World Health Organization was deemed too alarmist when it faced the H1N1 epidemic in 2009 but five years later it was accused of dragging its feet in declaring an emergency over the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, which would go on to kill more than 11,000 people.
And yet, the organisation is once again under fire, with critics saying it did not react quickly or strongly enough to the new coronavirus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, late last year.
The agency has been accused of delaying sounding the alarm for fear of offending Beijing, for waiting too long to declare the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic and for failing to coordinate a coherent international response.
Despite the chaos, and evidence that Chinese officials hid the crisis for weeks and stifled doctors trying to sound the alarm, the WHO has praised Beijing for its early response.
Joseph Amon, a professor of global health at Drexel University in the United States, told AFP it was a "clear mistake and set an early tone by WHO that the epidemic was perhaps not as severe and that the initial response was adequate".
China told the WHO about an unknown form of pneumonia circulating in Wuhan on December 31, 2019.
Experts say that if the world had learnt of the problem weeks earlier it could probably have been reined in.
"If we had known about it then, then that could have made a huge difference," Roland Kao, an epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh, told AFP.
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In this case, I was forced to change it:
"COVID-19 pandemic puts WHOM back in hot seat"
I'm sorry I wasted your time, too.
Who gives a hoot about WHO? We,the USA,don’t need em. Defund them. They are stooges for the Chicoms.
These “world” organizations....WHO, UN, etc....are all useless siphons for tax money. They are filled with socialists and pedophiles and have ZERO accountability.
Abbott: WHO is back on the hot seat.
Costello: That’s what I’m trying to find out.
I'm thinking Roger Daltry/Pete Townsend
The entirety of the U.N. just needs to be disbanded.
It’s worthless.
WHO, CDC, etc…we’re up to our a^%es in ‘specialists’ and ‘scientists’.
In the meantime, they all guarded their grand funding and played politics. They ignored laughably basic facts about hygiene. Maybe none of them had that HS course in ‘health’ or even Biology 101. These wigged-out, oh so ‘know-it-all’ specialists dug-in their PC heels and looked the other way while the US imported disease, poverty and crime. Seriously?
We’re still supposed to continue a blind and mindless faith in THEIR so-called knowledge?? THIS crowd of self-serving jerks need to be booted out on their heads. The local vet knows more than any of them!!
It’s worthless.
That would be at its most benign, which it seldom - if ever - is anymore.
It is dangerous.
Why does WHO even exist?
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