COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Goatman Saint said
You have to remember, China does what China wants. If they don’t want someone to know something, they won’t. They didn’t own up to this mess quickly, fought against letting the world know how bad it was and is continuing to lie about it now. The WHO is only ss good as the information it receives.

The WHO can’t function when a country like China is telling them how to operate and to exclude vital information about the virus from the rest of the world. https://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-accuses-failing-heed-warning-143800176.html

The officials said doctors in Taiwan had learned from their colleagues in mainland China that medical staff were falling ill from the as-yet unnamed coronavirus, a sign of human-to-human transmission that Taiwan says it passed on to the WHO and Chinese authorities on December 31. However, the WHO did not communicate the information with other nations.

China forbids international organizations of which it is a member, such as the WHO, from recognizing Taiwan as a member in its own right. Chinese health authorities confirmed human-t0-human transmission of the coronavirus on January 20