As the leader of the World Health Organization throughout the pandemic, the immunologist from Ethiopia has been attacked by all sides. He’s been berated by Donald Trump for being soft on China, called “irresponsible” by Chinese officials, and knocked by health experts who said he was too cautious at the start of the outbreak.
But while Tedros has yet to catch the virus, his life, at the center of the pandemic, has been infected by the chaos and conspiracy covid-19 has created. Before the global outbreak, the WHO often worked behind the scenes, tracking disease clusters and providing technical guidance to governments. The agency was founded in 1948 to coordinate the U.N.'s public health work in the post-war period.
He is also eager to see his most daring proposal — an international treaty on pandemic preparedness — get off the ground. Upon returning home, Tedros would join the national government in Ethiopia that was led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front , a former paramilitary group from the Tigray region.Today, the TPLF is no longer in government — and its forces have been at war with Ethiopia’s military since 2020, following a dispute with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed over elections that were canceled because of pandemic restrictions.
Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University, said he was initially concerned that Ethiopia’s authoritarian style of government and poor human rights record under the TPLF would influence Tedros’s approach to the job. “The 1918 pandemic,” Tedros said, recalling that Trump had asked: “Could anything like that happen again?”Then, in 2021, Tedros also infuriated China. Frustrated by Beijing’s efforts to stonewall a joint investigation into the start of the outbreak, he made a public call for China to be more transparent and said it was premature to rule out the theory that the virus escaped from a lab.
The report said the agency fumbled key decisions involving airborne transmission and the use of face masks. The commission even noted that Tedros himself had held a closed-door meeting of virologists, public health researchers and some government representatives on Jan. 22, 2020, as the virus spread — but failed to declare the growing outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern,” its most serious classification, until a week later.
'Dr. Tedros' gives medical advice. But he is not a doctor. He has no license to practice medicine. That's a felony in the US - where he is located. He hid 3 or 4 ebola outbreaks from the Ethiopean public when he was in gov't there. He is a menace & a criminal. Imprison him!
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