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But behind the scenes, it was a much different story, one of significant delays by China and considerable frustration among WHO officials over not getting the information they needed to fight the spread of the deadly virus, The Associated Press has found.
WHO officials were lauding China in public because they wanted to coax more information out of the government, the recordings obtained by the AP suggest.
China in fact sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the virus for more than a week after three different government labs had fully decoded the information. Tight controls on information and competition within the Chinese public health system were to blame
The recordings suggest that rather than colluding with China, as Trump declared, WHO was itself kept in the dark as China gave it the minimal information required by law.
The delay in the release of the genome stalled the recognition of its spread to other countries, along with the global development of tests, drugs and vaccines. The lack of detailed patient data also made it harder to determine how quickly the virus was spreading — a critical question in stopping it.
Between the day the full genome was first decoded by a government lab on Jan. 2 and the day WHO declared a global emergency on Jan. 30, the outbreak spread by a factor of 100 to 200 times, according to retrospective infection data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus has now infected over 6 million people worldwide and killed more than 375,000.
“It’s obvious that we could have saved more lives and avoided many, many deaths if China and the WHO had acted faster,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
I had actually wondered that, 450 million a year is a lot of money, much more than the paltry kickbacks they get from the CCP, makes you wonder?
originally posted by: Fools
Could this change of mind be due to Trump cutting their funding?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm???????????
But did they have to make it so obvious?
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
a reply to: Fools
That was my first thought. Money talks bs walks.
Governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies
Two of the world’s leading medical journals – the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine – published studies based on Surgisphere data. The studies were co-authored by the firm’s chief executive, Sapan Desai. Late on Tuesday, after being approached by the Guardian, the Lancet released an “expression of concern” about its published study. The New England Journal of Medicine has also issued a similar notice. An independent audit of the provenance and validity of the data has now been commissioned by the authors not affiliated with Surgisphere because of “concerns that have been raised about the reliability of the database”.
originally posted by: RalagaNarHallas
www.theguardian.com...
Governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies
seems the who keeps dropping the ball so to speak as they some how used data from these guys in studies to "disprove" hydroxychloroquine studies
Two of the world’s leading medical journals – the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine – published studies based on Surgisphere data. The studies were co-authored by the firm’s chief executive, Sapan Desai. Late on Tuesday, after being approached by the Guardian, the Lancet released an “expression of concern” about its published study. The New England Journal of Medicine has also issued a similar notice. An independent audit of the provenance and validity of the data has now been commissioned by the authors not affiliated with Surgisphere because of “concerns that have been raised about the reliability of the database”.
and its not just the WHO that was fooled but two of the leading medical journals which should raise eyebrows everywhere that the WHO and major medical experts were bamboozled by such a small company whos experts seem to be more scifi and porn orientated then actual scientist
Yeah no kidding, talk about an EPIC dose of reality.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: RalagaNarHallas
You mean the studies Trump haters said couldn't be any more conclusive simply because of where they got published?
and if it does work expect trump to scream from the roof tops that he was once again vindicated in the face of people giving him crap for weeks now
but the WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said its experts had advised the continuation of all trials including hydroxychloroquine, whose highest-profile backer for use against the coronavirus is U.S. President Donald Trump. “The executive group will communicate with the principal investigators in the trial about resuming the hydroxychloroquine arm of the trial,” Tedros told an online media briefing, referring to WHO’s initiative to hold clinical tests of potential COVID-19 treatments on some 3,500 patients in 35 countries.
originally posted by: boozo
Check this mf out.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) Tweeted:
ChingChangChongs: how many years this covid gonna last?
Dr.Doom: Forever!!!
Everyone: *laughs maniacally*
twitter.com...