WHO alters timeline to indicate it first learned of coronavirus from Internet, not Chinese officials

[Highmark]

Absolutely insane.   People should be hung for keeping the bold a secret.    The US wasn't informed otherwise for a month and half.    

 

The credibility of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its dealings with the Chinese government in the early days of the pandemic have once again come under scrutiny following revelations that the U.N.-backed global health body tacitly changed its coronavirus timeline to disclose that it initially heard about the novel virus outbreak from the Internet, not Beijing officials as it has long insisted.

 

According to multiple reports, the revisions were made on the WHO website on June 29, adding fuel to the fire that the Chinese leadership long purported to cover up the new virus, formally termed COVID-19, and that the WHO assisted them in doing so.

 

The revised text continues to maintain that on Dec. 31, 2019, "WHO's Country Office in the People's Republic of China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of 'viral pneumonia' in Wuhan, People's Republic of China," but adds that "the WHO's open-source intelligence platform also picked up a Chinese-language news report from Finance Sina, a Chinese outlet, about the same cluster of cases in Wuhan, attributed to a 'pneumonia of unknown cause.'"

The WHO previously said its first knowledge of the coronavirus stemmed from an alert issued by the Wuhan municipal health commission, the AFP noted. However, the timeline modification now clarifies that the first notification came from the WHO's Beijing office rather than from Beijing authorities.

Both the WHO and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have vehemently insisted that there was no coverup or collusion, despite an investigation from the U.S. government which led to President Trump announcing in late May that the American taxpayer would no longer be funding the organization over its mishandling of the pandemic.

For decades, the U.S. served as the WHO's largest donor – forking out around $400 million annually and some 10 times more than China. In response, Beijing had pledged to vastly increase the amount it gives the organization.

A spokesperson for the WHO did not immediately respond to a request for comment to clarify the timeline change and why it was enhanced more than six months after the initial findings.

In a statement released to media outlets over the weekend, the agency said – as per Business Insider – that the new timeline "gives more details" regarding the early days of the burgeoning crisis that has since taken the lives of more than half a million people globally.

But the latest narrative change is one of just many in recent months pertaining to how much the WHO knew and its questionable relationship with Chinese officials.

 

For one, doctors in Wuhan were aware the virus could spread between humans as early as the beginning of December, with patients falling ill despite having had no exposure to the wet market.

The first confirmed case from inside Wuhan was said to have been logged on Dec. 8, a woman who claimed to have not been connected to the market. It raises questions about what went on during the weeks in between, the WHO's own investigative abilities and why an initial tweet sent by the WHO on Jan. 14 said there was "no evidence of human to human transmission."

Furthermore, on Feb. 3, several weeks after scores of countries – including the United States – had confirmed cases of the new illness, WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus proclaimed that "the spread to other countries is minimal and slow," and the virus could be "contained easily" as a result of China's "strategy and efforts." His comments came a week after the health chief met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Edited July 6, 2020 by Highmark

[spin_dry]

This has been known for months. Why is it suddenly big news? 

[Highmark]

7 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

This has been known for months. Why is it suddenly big news? 

The WHO wasn't admitting it until June 29th.    I also believe the knowledge that human to human spread was known by the Chinese in early December is earlier than originally known.   

Post up some news articles if I'm wrong.   I can't find anything on CNN or MSNBC talking about it at all.   

[Ez ryder]

21 minutes ago, Highmark said:

The WHO wasn't admitting it until June 29th.    I also believe the knowledge that human to human spread was known by the Chinese in early December is earlier than originally known.   

Post up some news articles if I'm wrong.   I can't find anything on CNN or MSNBC talking about it at all.   

they can't report shit they had there sheep keeping the taint of the WHO licked clean for some time now 

[spin_dry]

2 hours ago, Highmark said:

The WHO wasn't admitting it until June 29th.    I also believe the knowledge that human to human spread was known by the Chinese in early December is earlier than originally known.   

Post up some news articles if I'm wrong.   I can't find anything on CNN or MSNBC talking about it at all.   

The true story is actually quite more insidious. A researcher that worked for WHO identified human spread in late December/early January. An American researcher. She let it be known at a convention. It was common knowledge. The script was flipped. 

[Highmark]

2 hours ago, spin_dry said:

The true story is actually quite more insidious. A researcher that worked for WHO identified human spread in late December/early January. An American researcher. She let it be known at a convention. It was common knowledge. The script was flipped. 

WHO is now saying early December.

Edited July 7, 2020 by Highmark