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Even as evidence mounted that Chinese officials had silenced whistleblowers[1] and undercounted cases, Tedros took a moment to extol the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Now — more than a month into an escalating global health crisis[2] — there are questions about whether the WHO’s praise in the early weeks created a false sense of security that potentially spurred the virus’s spread.
“We were deceived,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University who also provides technical assistance to the WHO.
“Myself and other public health experts, based on what the World Health Organization and China were saying, reassured the public that this was not serious, that we could bring this under control,” he continued.
1: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/
Comment by Exist50 at 03/04/2020 at 19:18 UTC
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Where is this so-called "praise"?