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you've not shown anything to support your continued statements labeling the WHO as corrupt! As for "new information", did you actually read your linked article that emphasizes a delay between January 14-January 20? Here, again, let the waldo repeat (for the nthteentime) the following:


it's all about evidence! What actual evidence, scientific evidence, exists to legitimately, with authority, make pronouncements about human-to-human transmission... with resultant/expected actions therein? As I put forward, the following was the first formal substantive scientific paper (published January 29) that had the evidence for said human-to-human transmission... I expect earlier recognition of this (prior to the formal publish date of Jan 29) is what prompted the WHO to issue its January 22nd notification:

Why can’t you just admit that China lied?  The press has evidence now and is reporting it.  You’re the equivalent of Baghdad Bob, err Beijing Bob! 😀😀😀

China was slammed for initial COVID-19 secrecy, but its scientists led the way in tackling the virus

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The accusation that the Chinese government delayed in letting the world know about the COVID-19 outbreak has become a political weapon in countries including the US, the UK and Canada.

But China’s scientists have won international praise for hitting several key milestones in understanding the novel, fast-moving virus.

Chinese leaders were seen as slow to react to the outbreak that began in the city of Wuhan, suppressing information and even punishing those who raised the alarm.

“There was an early cover up in Wuhan, perhaps a few days to a week, before the threat was accepted. We will never know if faster action in those first days could have averted the outbreak,” said Ian Jones, professor of biomedical sciences at Reading University.

Despite the initial slow reaction from the government, “There has been a very open dialogue [since] and many research findings from the Chinese experience are now appearing,” says Jones.

In January, a team led by Yong-Zhen Zhang, of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre & School of Public Health, published the initial viral genome on two open-access sites, drawing praise for the swiftest sequencing effort ever. Later that month, Chinese doctors and scientists reported the first description of the new disease in the Lancet medical journal.

“Under immense pressure, as the epidemic exploded around them, they took time to write up their findings in a foreign language and seek publication in a medical journal thousands of miles away. Their rapid and rigorous work was an urgent warning to the world. We owe those scientists enormous thanks,” said Richard Horton, Lancet editor.

At the University of Hong Kong, researchers are developing a COVID-19 vaccine, novel screening agents, diagnostic tests and models of infection to trace the source and help prevent future occurrences.

“[We] were among the first teams in the world to produce a detailed cluster report, epidemiology report, electron microscope images and mathematical model of the potential spread of the virus,” said Zhang Xiang, president and vice-chancellor of the university. “Most Hong Kong residents still remember the experience of living through SARS in 2003, several instances of avian influenza, MERS, and now COVID-19.”

Any disagreements over how countries have managed the epidemic has not trickled down into labs, says Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health in the University of Southampton. “Whilst there will always be the politics of mistrust, I think, broadly, we’re seeing reasonable cooperation between China and elsewhere,” he said.

“The Chinese have been leading the way in publishing open-access evidence on case management, genomics and numerous areas of public health and epidemiology, which has been vital in informing the response in more or less every country.”

1. get a grip! Little of this thread has concentrated on the Canadian federal government - but nice of you to come down from your mountain and dispense!

2.  Of course, those inclined will always blindly parrot politicized talking points intended to provide alternate attack outlets while purposely giving cover for Trump's incompetence/dithering!

Kelly Anne Conway exposed in a recent TV interview that she doesn't understand what the 19 means with regard to describing the Covid virus. Apparently she thinks it's the one after Covid18. Well of course we all know who she works for so I guess her ignorance is understandable. George must have a sore neck by now from shaking his head from pretty much every time his wife opens her mouth.