Coronavirus: WHO 'let pandemic spin out of control', says US

[alp227]

Source: BBC

The US has accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of allowing the Covid-19 outbreak to spin "out of control" at the cost of "many lives".

"There was a failure by this organisation to obtain the information that the world needed," US health secretary Alex Azar said on Monday.

Mr Azar made the comments in an address to the UN's World Health Assembly.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier agreed to a review over the agency's handling of the pandemic.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52679329

[AleksS]

1. Geez. What percentage of this administrations time is spent

Geez. What percentage of this administrations time is spent involved in blaming other people for its screw ups?

I bet a solid 80% plus is spent looking for and talking about scapegoats. (The other 20% is spent grifting, obviously.)

Does ANYONE in this administration do any work? Or is it all time just spent looking for people to blame and ways to blame them?

[yuiyoshida]

4. Just look how many times Trump went golfing...

and flying to Florida for the weekends on Air force 1.

[Botany]

2. You mean like getting the virus and its sequenced genome from China in Nov. or Dec. of 2019 and ...

... passing that information on to scientists in Germany who made a perfectly good kit to
detect C-19 and that kit has been used all over the world to help stop the spread of the
disease by testing and tracing? The same kit that Trump rejected so he and Kush-Turd could
peddle their own C-19 test kits and make lots of money.

[Worried2020]

22. SHUSH now -

.
.

We're just at the "Iraq has WMD" stage here - don't spoil the narrative with a reality check,

OK?





W

ps:

[yuiyoshida]

3. BULLSHIT..ITS YOU TRUMP who is the real failure and those Republicans

who backed the President, maybe they should all be drinking BLEACH NOW..

[Botany]

5. Trump was told of the disease in November of 2019

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273

Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources
"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source said.

As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.

Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents.

The report was the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images. It raised alarms because an out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia -- forces that depend on the NCMI’s work. And it paints a picture of an American government that could have ramped up mitigation and containment efforts far earlier to prepare for a crisis poised to come home.

"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," one of the sources said of the NCMI’s report. "It was then briefed multiple times to" the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the White House. Wednesday night, the Pentagon issued a statement denying the "product/assessment" existed.

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And what dud Trump and Kush-Turd do? They looked to make money off the disease by pushing
Hydroxycholoroquine and their own C-19 test kits.

[yuiyoshida]

6. Trump has stated he is taking Hydroxycholoroquine as a preventative

This stuff has been linked to Heart attacks... good.

[Botany]

8. As noted by other smart DUers H.C.Q. is not a preventive but a treatment for the C-19 disease

Just saying.

[yuiyoshida]

11. so if the stupid fucker

wants to be injected with BLEACH... let him. But than, we will end up with Mike Pence... and he will want this nation to pray away the disease.

Uh mike? Covid 19 thumbs its nose at your fucking prayers.

[noneof_theabove]

14. not really

just another daily case of letting his alligator mouth overload his hummingbird ass.

That was a PR stunt for the base.

[yuiyoshida]

15. well, to put it realistically

If Trump Dies, Pence is President, and whats left of this country will be destroyed because he wants to pray away the virus. Science need not be allowed under his Administration.

[LeftInTX]

24. He's lying

[yuiyoshida]

25. You are probably right....

The Secret Service would prevent him from taking anything harmful...

[GriffenRamsey]

7. We're going to be the shithole country now.

I predict long after this virus is being eradicated, we'll still be trying to open up under Trump.

[mahina]

9. Oh bullshit. He just angled to make money on it after he tried to wait and see if it would go away.

What an infant.

An infant even a mother would dislike.

[PSPS]

10. Any sentence that ends with "says US" or begins "US says" means it's a lie these days.

[Ford_Prefect]

12. Who was it ignored the CIA warnings in November and then made plans to profit thereby?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. He can't have it all three ways. He ignored US Intell (always) & believed the WHO (initially).

Either he was stupid to believe the WHO when US Intell was telling him otherwise

OR

he was duped by the WHO when US Intell was telling him otherwise

OR

he ignored both the WHO and US Intell which was telling him it's serious.

In any case, the WHO was issuing warnings.

30 January 2020

The WHO Director-General reconvened the Emergency Committee (EC). This was earlier than the 10-day period and only two days after the first reports of limited human-to-human transmission were reported outside China. This time, the EC reached consensus and advised the Director-General that the outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The Director-General accepted the recommendation and declared the novel coronavirus outbreak (2019-nCoV) a PHEIC. This is the 6th time WHO has declared a PHEIC since the International Health Regulations (IHR) came into force in 2005.

WHO’s situation report for 30 January reported 7818 total confirmed cases worldwide, with the majority of these in China, and 82 cases reported in 18 countries outside China. WHO gave a risk assessment of very high for China, and high at the global level.

Then for five weeks he went golfing and rallying and did nothing because he didn't want to hear anything but "the virus will magically disappear". He did form some kind of committee to look into it. He thought the very leaky travel ban on China was all that was needed. This while the news and presidential Daily Briefings were full of "coronavirus".

Donny "Six Words" Trump failed to defend US lives, tens of thousands of US lives.

[Pobeka]

16. January 23rd, China locks down Hubei province

By Jan 24, 50 million Chinese residents are completely locked down. You can't say it was a secret how seriously China was taking this. A lockdown that big shows up on satellite.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Exactly. Excellent points. It was in all the news, too. . . . nt

[yuiyoshida]

17. "Either he was stupid..."

would have been a good place to come to a full stop. Say no more..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. You & I know that, but the breakdown I wrote gives people talking points to shut down covidiots

... and maybe sway someone in the wishy-washy wobbly middle.

[Thomas Hurt]

18. Who besides God, if believe in such beings, could keep a disease under control?

Humans have had some success at snuffing out some diseases but we may never have all diseases under "control"

Besides the christofascists don't even believe in the abilities of international orgs to do f**k all.

Now they are trying to pin this on them.

[Aussie105]

19. The WHO let us down badly.

They should have sequenced the virus the day it first appeared, developed a test for it, then a vaccine, all on the same day.

Yes, that's sarcasm.

The WHO needs to collect data, if countries aren't keen to share that, it slows things down.

The WHO is a collective, the response speed or lack thereof, is entirely a problem for member nations.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Trump: blame, excuses, scapegoats.