Accusing the U.N.’s World Health Organization [WHO] of misleading the world about the spiraling December 2019 outbreak of coronvirus AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19, 73-year-old President Donald Trump served notice that he would look carefully at how WHO dropped the ball. WHO’s 55-year-old Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus blamed Trump for politicizing the coronavirus pandemic, without naming names. “Please don’t politicize this virus,” Tedros said April 8, diverting attention away from his mismanagement of the global pandemic that spread to over 200 countries, infecting 1,698,323 worldwide and killing 102.696. Tedros didn’t like when Trump banned all incoming-and-outgoing flights from China Jan. 31 to stop the spread into the United States. With Europe, especially Italy, hit hard, Trump didn’t want to take more chances with China travel to the U.S.
No one knew at the time that the damage was already done, with millions of Covid-19-infected Chinese tourists traveling to Europe and the United Sates over the 2019 holidays, infecting countless numbers of U.S. and European citizens. Speaking in Geneva four days after Trump’s China travel ban Feb. 3, Tedros spoke at WHO headquarters in Geneva. No need to “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade,” Tedros said, confirming 361 deaths from coronavirus in China. By Jan. 21, the U.S. had already seen its first Covid-19 case wash up on the West Coast in the Seattle, Washington area. “We call on all countries to implement decisions that are evidence-based and consistent,” furthering the cover-up of a deadly SARS CoV-2 outbreak in Wuhan, China. Tedros made many excuses for China, minimizing the potential for a global pandemic with the deadly virus jumping borders.
Tedros confirmed at his Feb. 3 Geneva press conference that China had 17,238 cases of SARS CoV-2 in China and 361 deaths. Tedros also acknowledged Feb. 3 that coronaviurs epidemic had jumped borders in 151 confirmed cases in 23 countries, including one death. Yet Tedros, criticized the U.S. for banning flights from China. “Because of this strategy and it weren’t for China, the number of cases outside China would have been very much higher,” Tedros said, praising China for doing a good job of containment. With cases popping up all over the globe, how could Tedros make that statement? With Chinese disarmament Amb. Li Song by his side, Tedros let his China bias came out. “All these measures are seriously against the recommendations by the WHO,” Song said, acknowledging that Tedros opposed any attempt to restrict “travel and trade” with China.
When Trump and his White House team take a serious look into WHO, Tedros gave plenty of evidence of gross negligence in China’s coronaviurs epidemic. Tedros had no problems praising China’s response the Covid-19 epidemic, waiting over a month before declaring SARS CoV-2 a global pandemic March 11. By that time, it was too late, with the virus spreading like wildfire in the United States, Europe and all over the world. Canadian epidemiologist Dr. Bruce Aylward, who went to China Feb. 10 for WHO, praised China’s response to the coronavirus epidemic. “They know how to keep people alive,” Aylaward said. Trump wasn’t bothered by WHO heaping praise on China, he was bothered by Tedros waiting over a month before declaring SARS CoV02 a global pandemic. Trump wants to know why Tedros waited so long to alert the world about the dangerous coronavirus pandemic.
With no sign of Tedros resigning for dereliction of duty, Trump’s taking matters into his own hands, considering yanking WHO’s U.S. funding. Tedros has disgraced the U.N.’s prestigious World Health Organization responsible for delivering heath care to the third world and dealing with infectious disease crises. “Instead of actions in the best interest of our global health, the WHO has served as a propaganda arm for the Chinese Communist party,” said Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), demanding answers from the prestigious U.N. body. Trump commented that WHO seemed “China-centric,” but it goes way beyond that, watching Tedros withhold valuable infectious disease data in an apparent favor to Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi’s wife Peng Liyuan worked as global ambassador for WHO for many years. She pushed to see Tedros become WHO’s Director-General July 1, 2017.
Whatever happened with WHO in the coronavirus crisis, it’s clear that Tedros dropped the ball, letting the Chinese SARS CoV-2 epidemic morph into a global pandemic. U.S. officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] were ready-and-available to help China contain the crisis in December 2019 and January 2020. Trump said WHO “minimized the threat very strongly,” in a clear understatement of what actually happened. China has not owned that it leaked the deadly coronvirus from its bioweapons’ lab at its Wuhan-based National Virology Institute, most likely selling infected lab animals into Wuhan’s food supply. “Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” WHO said Feb. 3. Waiting a month to declare a global pandemic, Tedros clearly breached his duty and should resign immediately as WHO’s Director-General.
