“Since the beginning of the outbreak, we have been continuously sharing information on the epidemic with the WHO and the international community in an open, transparent and responsible manner,” said Liu Mingzhu, an official with the National Health Commission’s International Department, at aThe race to find the genetic map of the virus started in late December, according to the story that unfolds in interviews, documents and the WHO recordings.
Chinese law states that research institutes cannot conduct experiments on potentially dangerous new viruses without approval from top health authorities. Although the law is intended to keep experiments safe, it gives top health officials wide-ranging powers over what lower-level labs can or cannot do.
On Jan. 5, the Shanghai Public Clinical Health Center, led by famed virologist Zhang Yongzhen, was the latest to sequence the virus. He submitted it to the GenBank database, where it sat awaiting review, and notified the National Health Commission. He warned them that the new virus was similar to SARS and likely infectious.
A major factor behind the gag order, some say, was that Chinese CDC researchers wanted to publish their papers first. “They wanted to take all the credit,” said Li Yize, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. The article also embarrassed WHO officials. Dr. Tom Grein, chief of WHO’s acute events management team, said the agency looked “doubly, incredibly stupid.” Van Kerkhove, the American expert, acknowledged WHO was “already late” in announcing the new virus and told colleagues that it was critical to push China.
“We have to be consistent,” Ryan said. “The danger now is that despite our good intent...especially if something does happen, there will be a lot of finger-pointing at WHO.” Supaporn compared her sequence with Zhang’s and found it was a 100% match, confirming that the Thai patient was ill with the same virus detected in Wuhan. Another Thai lab got the same results. That day, Thailand informed the WHO, said Tanarak Plipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control at Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health.
“The pressure is intense in an outbreak to make sure you’re right,” said Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealthAlliance in New York. “It’s actually worse to go out to go to the public with a story that’s wrong because the public completely lose confidence in the public health response.”Infectious diseases expert John Mackenzie, who served on a WHO emergency committee during the outbreak, praised the speed of Chinese researchers in sequencing the virus.
China and Tedro must be held accountable. Trump was right to stop funding and exit this corrupt organization. Don't fund them until Tedro resigns and WHO is reformed.
To not release transcripts is like lancetgate - we are left with your interpretation, opinion and no context. Also you don't mention that it has been discovered prior to January elsewhere without detection, the point being it's not unreasonable that detection took some time
You gotta SHARE the recordings if you want this information to be fully reliable.
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Take away funding and all the sudden they want to play nice
Hold China accountable for the crisis! ChineseVirus
' The Associated Press was also unable to provide audio recordings or written minutes of the meeting to protect the source.'
'the AP has found' LoL.. like JUST NOW they figured out the WHO was being USED AS A PROPAGANDA TOOL FOR THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY..
DecouplefromChina ScottAdamsSays
So all of the media was lying through their teeth and pushing China propaganda? Go figure
Show the minutes of the meeting, or you're lying
Definitely trump’s fault
ChinaLiedPeopleDied AND WHOLiedPeopleDied aka Not Orange Man Bad icymi
The word you are looking for is complicit.
So you are saying China 🇨🇳 Lied 🤥 and people died
Geniuses!!
So, realDonaldTrump was right.... again.
mattsheffield Trump already told us this!
But you commies told us the WHO and wonderful Marxists in China were the bestest.
Further confirmation that China is never to be trusted in providing timely, accurate information.
Then why this corrupt and power hogging president of WHO DrTedros praised Chinese president on his visit to China.
Here is an expression of concern saying the study that showed hydroxychloroquine killed people might be completely made up. WHO stopped trials around the world because of it. How incompetent/corrupt can you be? Trump was right de-funding these clowns
No kidding! I knew that and I’m not even a reporter. Go figure.!
But of course!
Gee, so Trump and Barr have been right the whole time. WHO woulda thought?
Seems pretty fucking important
Wow. Finally a legit piece of journalism. Off day over there?
This👇🏼lying Democrats DNC SenJeffMerkley RonWyden repblumenauer RepPeterDeFazio JoeBiden
Pretty much what we all knew about; the media knew about it but still called us a bunch of racists and got on board with a coup.
But but... i thought china saved the world. According to some ,,news' outlets.
WHO can you really trust the data from China? It is likely to be filtered and made up to look like China did not know anything.
ChinaLiedAndPeopleDied
You left out the part that during this same period, WHO praised China for its outstanding efforts.
Repeat a lie often enough and the stupid will believe it and start looting and robbing,right
tWo MiLlIoN dEaD
So, to be clear, the President of the USA was right.
FOOL_NELSON Wow, AP actually doing some journalism, how about that? Trump 2020
WEIRD!!
What.. it can’t be!!! CNN says it’s Russia Russia Russia.. or Trump. So...
And yet, they praised them, blocked Taiwan, and passed their narrative ...
So Trump was right again.
Shocked. Shocked I say!!!!
Cue my shocked face. Are journalists gonna apologizing for spreading Chinese propaganda the last 4 months?
Hahahaha The ignorantMedia has major corruption issues The 1st amendment needs amending
lachlan 'arguably'
😱 shocking!!!
So they decided to fabricate and communicate a lie?
I thought the virus was over now.
Oh, but the FakeNews media has been pushing Chinese propaganda since January. How is this possible?
This will not make your Chinese masters very happy.
Communist China is a literally a giant parasite on the free world. Crooks at WHO allowed them to sickened us.
Oh, but i thought that was just a President Trump conspiracy theory? Smdh. You media are so full of shit.
ChinaChinaChinaChinaChinaChina China is your mother？？？？
Trump was right.....AGAIN.
Is China really willing to help the world? They're actually covering up critical information about COVID19 which can help the world combat it.
This story will probably not be reported in the nytimes or CNN because it does not conform to their agenda.
China should cancel the world's debt owed to them as reparation.
Civitas report concluded that China and WHO must be investigated for their handling of Covid-19, particularly in the early stage of the contagion.
This is not news.
'I'm sure it's fine' is still not how you should respond to the emergence of an unknown disease.
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