More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials.
...Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.
The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s assertion that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States.
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Trump’s announceme[ed April 14] that he was freezing all U.S. funding for it
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“It will all work out well,” he tweeted in late January. “On behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi.”
WaPo
...Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.
The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s assertion that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States.
...
Trump’s announceme[ed April 14] that he was freezing all U.S. funding for it
...
“It will all work out well,” he tweeted in late January. “On behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi.”
WaPo
