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!@#$%! · 04.19.2020, 01:52 PM

Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration

By
Karen DeYoung,
Lena H. Sun and
Emily Rauhala
April 19, 2020 at 8:23 a.m. MDT

More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials.

A number of CDC staffers are regularly detailed to work at WHO in Geneva as part of a rotation that has operated for years. Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.

The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s charge that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States.

The administration has also sharply criticized the Chinese government for withholding information. But the president, who often touts a personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping and is reluctant to inflict damage on a trade deal with Beijing, appears to see the WHO as a more defenseless target.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...eed_story.html

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!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,476	Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration By Karen DeYoung, Lena H. Sun and Emily Rauhala April 19, 2020 at 8:23 a.m. MDT More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials. A number of CDC staffers are regularly detailed to work at WHO in Geneva as part of a rotation that has operated for years. Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said. The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s charge that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States. The administration has also sharply criticized the Chinese government for withholding information. But the president, who often touts a personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping and is reluctant to inflict damage on a trade deal with Beijing, appears to see the WHO as a more defenseless target. the moronic presidency’s absolute fuckups continue in the link here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...eed_story.html
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