World Health Organization [WHO] has done everything possible to cover up costly mistakes that failed to report the global coronvirus pandemic to protect U.N. member-states from the deadly SARS CoV-2 crisis that has 3,055,651 cases and 211,065 deaths worldwide. WHO’s 55-year-old Director-General Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spent three months before declaring March 11 a global pandemic, allowing China’s Wuhan-based virus to spread around the globe. Had Tedros acted responsibly in January it would have saved thousands of lives and prevented the world economy from lapsing into a depression. Now months later, Tedros decides to hold a Zoom conference with the international community to talk about a coordinated global effort to accelerate creating treatments and vaccines. U.S. President Donald Trump announced he’d cut WHO’s funding April 14 pending review.
Hosting a Zoom conference to highlight everything what WHO is doing to deal with the global coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 pandemic, Tedros tries to save his job.. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and South African Presidden Cyril Ramaphosa participated in what WHO called a “landmark collaboration.” Tedros has fended off calls for his resignation, digging in with what looks like a heroic effort to deal with the global coronavirus crisis. Had Tedros acted decisively in January, the SARS CoV-2 crisis would have stayed contained in China. But, no, Tedros kept Chinese President Xi Jinping’s dirty secret about the Wuhan coronvirus epidemic before finally declaring it a global pandemic March 11. Attempts now to show leadership are a cynical cover up of WHO’s irresonsible management of the Wuhan epidemic back in January 2019.
Tedros led the Zoom call, now that it’s impossible for U.N. leaders to meet in person because of the highly infectious coronavirus crisis. “We are facing a common threat which we can only defeat with a common approach,” Tedros said, diverting attention away from his failure to manage the Wuhan epidemic before its spread like wildfire around the world. “Experience has told us that even when tools are available they have no been equally available to all. We cannot allow that to happen,” Tedros said, hiding behind differences in health care practices in the third world. Tedros didn’t need any magical tools to notify U.N.-members to prepare to slow the virus from spreading from China to other countries. When 73-year-old President Donald Trump banned flights to-and-from China Jan. 31, Tedros held a Geneva press conference Feb. 3 to denounce Trump’s action.
Tedros was adamant Feb. 3 that no country should interfere with “travel and trade” because of an infectious disease crisis. It was Tedros Jan. 14 who told the world that there was no “human-to-human tranmission” in Wuhan, China. “Preliminary investigations by Chinese authorities have no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronvirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,” WHO stated Jan. 14. Tedros knew exactly that a spiraling human-to-human coronavirus epidemic was happening in Wuhan but chose to keep it a secret at the request of Chinese President Xi Jinping. All indications point to the outbreak happening in late Oct. 2019, moving through Wuhan like a steamroller by Jan. 14. By the time Tedros said no “human to human transmission” was taking place, Wuhan’s crematoriums couldn’t keep pace with all the corpses.
No country has been hit harder than the United States with 1,004,942 cases and 56,527 deaths, sending the economy into a serious recession, possibly depression. “Although the United States was not in attendance at the meeting in question, there should be no doubt about our continuing determination to lead on global health matters, including the current COVID crisis,” said the U.S. mission spokesperson in Geneva. “We remain deeply concerned about the WHO’s effectiveness, given that its gross failure helped fuel the current pandemic,” announcing suspension of funding April 14. EU leaders like Macon and Merkel have their own agenda. “And I hope we’ll manage to reconcile around this joint initiative both China and the U.S., because this about saying ‘the fight against COVID-19 is a common human good and there should be no division in order to win this battle’” Macron said.
Macron wants no part of any controversy, especially when it comes WHO leadership. It’s going to be difficult knowing how Tedros dropped the ball for the U.S. to accept him as WHO’s Director-General. To restore WHO’s credibility, Tedros can’t just propose new vast programs, he must squarely accept responsibility for failing to do his job to stop the global coronaviurs pandemic. “This concerns a global public good, to produce this vaccine and to distribute it in all parts of the world,” Merkel said, going along with Tedros’ new after-the-fact plan. No one denies that finding new treatments and vaccine for SARS CoV-2 pandemic is the highest priority. But it’s impossible to ignore the abysmal management by Tedros as head of WHO. Letting Tedros divert attention away from his failure, but, more importantly, his inappropriate relationship with China, cannot be ignored.
