The Covid-19 Info thread (keep politics out please)

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I heard today on one of the news network that as late as Jan 17th the Chinese were telling the WHO that there was no evidence of human to human transfers. I hope that one is not true.

It is unfortunately true.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is now haunted by a tweet it sent earlier this year when it cited Chinese health officials who claimed there had been no human transmissions of the novel coronavirus within the country yet.


The Jan. 14 tweet came less than two months before WHO declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic.

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China," the organization had said.

It also relied on information from Chinese health authorities who have been accused of obscuring facts and figures during the course of the outbreak.

There are multiple references: One of them is - https://www.nationalreview.com/the-m...astating-lies/