Posted on 01/19/2021 2:50:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
China and the World Health Organization could have acted faster to avert catastrophe during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a panel of independent experts has concluded.
he Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said its evaluation of the start of the crisis in China “suggests that there was potential for early signs to have been acted on more rapidly”.
Containment measures should have been implemented immediately in all countries where transmission was likely, the panel said.
The panel said it was clear that “public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January”.
The report also criticised the WHO for dragging its feet at the start of the crisis, pointing out that the UN health agency did not convene its emergency committee until January 22, 2020.
And the committee failed to agree to declare the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) – its highest alert level – until a week later.
Outgoing US President Donald Trump accused the organisation of botching its handling of the pandemic and of being a “puppet of China”.
The panel, led by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, began its work in July after WHO member states called for an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation” of its response to the pandemic.
The WHO and national authorities were not quick enough to warn that the virus could spread between people, including those without symptoms could pass it on, the panel said.
It also questioned whether the WHO should have used the word pandemic earlier than it did.
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Wonderful...A stern email rebuke for the Chicoms...!
Hip, hip, hurray...!
How about massive debt forgiveness for releasing a genetically engineered bioweapon around the globe...?
Of course they could have. Like they did with SARS-COV-1. It was contained immediately. They alerted the world before it started to rapidly spread. This time they sat on their hands and even downplayed it - you can find the head of WHO on video.
Now isolate, treat them.like Iran and nork
to me it deserves total isolation and if that dragon shows it head chop it off..
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