We do not accept blindly data. ‘Top WHO Official defends the reaction of COVID-19 group

While the comparison between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the administration Trump continues to be a top WHO official to raise the organization, the efforts of the Defense Information and the share of about COVID-19 with the world, despite ” politics in the way now. ” In an interview with a time of Maria Van Kerkhove, epidemiologist American infectious diseases that serve as the 19-COVID technical manager, pushed back on the criticism of people, including the US president Donald Trump, which on data Chinese employees and had waited too long, what is spread all over the world risk from person to person to warn the transmission. “We did not accept blindly data as it is,” says Van Kerkhove. “Things are reported to us, and then we will look closely and seek and kick the tires. We always ask for more. This is not unique to the situation and that is not just in China.” Early response to WHO of COVID-19 is for Trump last week, decided under fresh scrutiny to pull the US funding for the group, sparks reaction from countries and health professionals around the world. The United States was the largest benefactor of that last year, providing more than $400 million. Lawrence Gostin, director of the Georgetown University O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, says the US refinancing freeze is totally irresponsible ‘and unfair during a once-in-a-century’ health crisis public. “WHO about the size of a large US hospital funding,” says Gostin. “We’re really going so badly for finance and then blame when things go wrong?” The public and health policy experts have theorized that Trump is lashing out, attention wegzuzulenken by his missteps administration. Although initially it did the same, Trump WHO to trust and praised the Chinese government, which criticized the Associated Press, the data about the potential corona were six key days in January to become a pandemic. Trump said “failed to investigate credible reports … that WHO and lamented the fact that the organization, the US restrictions directly official with the Chinese government accounts came into conflict”, for the ‘administration Trump movement in the early weeks of the outbreak implemented fought. While those who are not warned that stopping travel and trade during an outbreak can be counterproductive, does not seem particularly Decision Trump as well as having; several other countries have also had the US state is set to the time restrictions in force. New Washington Post comes in claims holes are reporting that the WHO hidden information. US officials in health regularly feed the Geneva headquarters of the information work WHO were developing for the return burst administration Trump, according to the report. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services for the Post confirmed that 17 of its employees working at the WHO in January, but said “just because you Americans is incorporated, technical support, do not change the information you are getting from that leadership. “Van Kerkhove holds that publicly provided information up-to-date from the beginning. It notes that the WHO drew on information on similar Corona, including SARS and MERS, in its first COVID-19 Guidelines for health systems, on January 10, then after learning of a Roman pneumonia cluster in Wuhan 31 December and its networks of experts around the world have mobilized to gather information to start “very, very quickly.” adding that the WHO has declared Emergency COVID-19 public health of international importance, its highest official notification name-am January 30 Van Kerkhove says that frustrates so much attention paid on 14 January in a tweet saying that “preliminary by clear evidence investigations conducted Chinese authorities had found men to the coronavirus-human transmission.” It ‘was Tweet the same day released Van Kerkhove possible spread from person to person during a press conference Verbreitun g and warned, according to the Guardian report of an anonymous middle-level official, citing the WHO, meant “compensation” to get their statement not too far ahead of official reports from China. Van Kerkhove says WHO internal research and response is more sophisticated “what is made public or is made through Twitter,” adding that it still its member countries to push for more information about, acts as the organization in collaboration, one that gave a white-time to the public. WHO scientists knew and publicly the possibility of person-to-person transmission indicated shortly after learning of respiratory diseases in Wuhan, he says. directed in their guidance document of January 10 WHO countries are beginning precautions against possible air and respiratory droplets spread take. “When you hear of a cluster of pneumonia … someone would be in infectious diseases, if they can not say that there, human-to-human transmission have,” says Van Kerkhove. But in the early days of the outbreak, she did not say it was not immediately clear if the new virus would be very contagious, or deploy MERS similar cause rather limited person-to-person. The WHO data, collected as best it can, but must ultimately leaving on the information submitted by Member States are available, says Van Kerkhove. As “everyone everywhere,” says she can always do better. Gostin accepts the WHO, more could have been “honest and transparent” about the fact that he was of Chinese data could not completely verify quote. But he says the blame for the system lies in the treatment of the international community, the World Health Organization, not the WHO itself. “Countries do not allow the WHO [and] they do not, they give political support when they try to have someone to stand up and speak truth to power,” said Gostin. “The international community, the World Health Organization deserves because they have the funding and political support are not required provided that will have a voice in bold.” Daniel Spiegel, the Clinton administration was an ambassador for the United Nations agencies, including the WHO echoed this point of the post, noting that the WHO does not intelligence or investigative powers has its own. “They should have been more skeptical about the Chinese, they said,” Spiegel said, “but they are completely at the mercy of what are the governments.” Despite political tensions, Van Kerkhove says that she and her colleagues focused on living task and I am grateful to the US partners, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. “As a scientist, I usually do not deal with politics, and I try to stay on fire work we have to do,” he says. “We are doing everything possible to get the information to solve the unknown, and try to just get their implementation, to save as many lives as possible.”
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