President Donald Trump on Friday accused the World Health Organization of having made several misleading claims about the coronavirus as it spread across the globe in January and February.
“Why did the W.H.O. Ignore an email from Taiwanese health officials in late December alerting them to the possibility that CoronaVirus could be transmitted between humans?” Trump wrote in a pair of tweets on Friday. “Why did the W.H.O. make several claims about the CoronaVirus that ere either inaccurate or misleading in January and February, as the Virus spread globally? Why did the W.H.O. wait as long as it did to take decisive action?”
Trump also mentioned Lanhee Chen, the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution Fellow, who said on Fox News earlier this week that Trump must demand answers to the same questions that Trump later tweeted about on Friday.
According to The New York Post, Taiwanese officials wrote in a letter to the WHO that “News resources today indicate that at least seven atypical pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, China … Their health authorities replied to the media that the cases were believed not to be SARS, however the samples are still under examination, and cases have been isolated for treatment.”
The WHO said this week, “we are only aware of that one email that makes no mention of human-to-human transmission.”
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