and all of you cannot provide one piece of evidence for your position other than repeating what others have said.
Taiwan warned WHO over the possibility of human-to-human transmission in the virus outbreak in Wuhan back in late December. Perhaps if Taiwan was a member of WHO, its warning would have been heeded.
nationalinterest.org
No one can convince someone who doesn't want to know or be informed.
I've posted over and over evidence that Taiwan's warnings about China and the corona virus were
ignored.
You make accusation but provide no proof. Half you all probably never heard of WHO before the pandemic thinking that must be the rock group from England way way back
www.cdc.gov.tw
Well that's "clever" but self serving coming from someone who obviously has no intention of learning the
truth of this matter.
There is
lots of information showing how the WHO has been shielding China from blame for the world wide pandemic we are in. But you chose to pretend it doesn't exist and that's disgraceful.
here is my evidence 1
Pneumonia of unknown cause – China
Disease outbreak news
5 January 2020
On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. As of 3 January 2020, a total of 44 patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology have been reported to WHO by the national authorities in China. Of the 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition. According to media reports, the concerned market in Wuhan was closed on 1 January 2020 for environmental sanitation and disinfection.
The causal agent has not yet been identified or confirmed. On 1 January 2020, WHO requested further information from national authorities to assess the risk.
National authorities report that all patients are isolated and receiving treatment in Wuhan medical institutions. The clinical signs and symptoms are mainly fever, with a few patients having difficulty in breathing, and chest radiographs showing invasive lesions of both lungs.
According to the authorities, some patients were operating dealers or vendors in the Huanan Seafood market.
Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.
Public Health Response
National authorities have reported the following response measures:
- One hundred and twenty-one close contacts have been identified and are under medical observation;
- The follow-up of close contacts is ongoing;
- Pathogen identification and the tracing of the cause are underway;
- Wuhan Municipal Health Commission carried out active case finding, and retrospective investigations have been completed;
- Environmental sanitation and further hygiene investigations are under way.
WHO is closely monitoring the situation and is in close contact with national authorities in China.
WHO risk assessment
There is limited information to determine the overall risk of this reported cluster of pneumonia of unknown etiology. The reported link to a wholesale fish and live animal market could indicate an exposure link to animals. The symptoms reported among the patients are common to several respiratory diseases, and pneumonia is common in the winter season; however, the occurrence of 44 cases of pneumonia requiring hospitalization clustered in space and time should be handled prudently.
Wuhan city, with a population of 19 million, is the capital city of Hubei province, with a population of 58 million people. WHO has requested further information on the laboratory tests performed and the differential diagnoses considered.
WHO advice
Based on information provided by national authorities, WHO’s recommendations on public health measures and surveillance of influenza and severe acute respiratory infections still apply.
WHO does not recommend any specific measures for travellers. In case of symptoms suggestive of respiratory illness either during or after travel, travellers are encouraged to seek medical attention and share travel history with their healthcare provider.
WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the current information available on this event.
www.who.int
The incident was report by 30 Dec but do to lack of information provided by the Chinese of an unknown cause, then there is not much they can do at this point. It is up to the Chinese to provide information. Yet they may not know what is going on yet but they did report is as unknown.
On Jan. 22, two days after Chinese officials first publicized the serious threat posed by the new virus ravaging the city of Wuhan, the chief of the World Health Organization held the first of what would be months of almost daily media briefings, sounding the alarm, telling the world to take the outbreak seriously.
Now show me your proof which will probably mirror the original notice listed above which is posted on the WHO site. Which is what the Taiwan news is reporting. Now this is not about China and when they came clean. This is about blaming WHO when they were given limited information and cannot go viral on fuzzy information. Still by Jan 22 they sounded the alarm
Yet Trump a few days later was telling US that everything will be okay as it just one or two cases.
Two different messages. But the WHO is being blamed for being in China pocket when it was Trump action that was at odds. Wasn't Trump negotiating a trade deal with China. Was he blaming China for something in Jan.
Things that make you go Hmmmmm
Taiwan news appears to be your source. Still Taiwan fears that China will one day take them over as Chiana believes that Taiwan is part of China and Taiwan whole hardly disagrees. So information they release about China should be taken with a grain of salt.
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