Taiwan says it is trying to warn the world about coronavirus. and here’s what you really know when

When he heard of patients falling ill on December 31 with a mysterious pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan, officials of the Taiwan health officials fired an email off to the World Health Organization, to ask for more information. The request of four movements has crush me from becoming fodder for political brawl between China and the United States and threatens the reputation of the health agency of the United Nations, as it leads the fight against an unprecedented global pandemic. The Taiwanese and US officials have focused on e-mails seized argue that ignores an early warning that the crown could probably be transmitted from human to human. In the weeks after the Dec. 31 note, the WHO has echoed Chinese officials that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” – also began as cases that look more suspicious to infection. In an interview with the time Dr. Lo Yi-Chun, deputy director general of Taiwan’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) says the WHO query on Taiwan should have acted is carried out by its own investigation. Instead, he says “made a false sense of security in the world.” Who is who defends his handling of the outbreak, saying it leaves the member countries such as China to report accurately on their results. It also notes that Taiwan’s email does not specifically mention the non-human transmission, and that the island of self-government was not the first nor the only one to contact the organization about the disease. But control intensified. President Donald Trump – as regards the criticism of his government’s response – Taiwan quoted the email as proof of China’s alleged cover up the severity of helping the epidemic, and exposed to the US contributions to the Food and Drug Administration in April. rejecting both Beijing and the WHO any concealment. On Tuesday, Trump threatened to freeze funding on a permanent basis in a letter to WHO to make the leaders sent as virtually Nations gathered for the annual meeting of WHO’s decision. also “do not share” the communication of Taiwan – – Homing “repeated missteps” the board of the WHO pandemic response Trump did not say committing more dollars American taxpayers could agency, unless it is not required major improvements contained ” in the next 30 days. “with Taiwan in the spotlight, TIME spoke to unravel with health officials, politicians and analysts that the island of 23 million made in the first critical days of the pandemic when it triggered a rapid response , which it helped that his infection rate in the low to maintain world. The e-mail at 06:30 on December 31, the Taiwan CDC Dr. Lo has woken up a notice on his phone. His colleagues in the media monitoring unit had found social media messages about pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan. The original positions in China were quickly removed, but the PTT images, a popular online forum had been made available to third parties in Taiwan. Some commentators fear a resurgence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which killed between 2002 and 2003, 774 people, mostly in Asia. Here, an infectious diseases expert, examined the images of laboratory reports and medical news and suspects something different, something new. “But if the source was reliable or … showed the correct pathogens [could not] just to show reading,” he says. So he asked his colleagues to get in touch with their counterparts in Beijing and the WHO by the International Health Regulations mechanism, a WHO framework for the exchange between countries to ask for more information. Around 01:30 this afternoon, the Wuhan Municipal Commission Health announced 27 cases of pneumonia in a fish market. It is said his investigation found “no clear transmission from human to human.” It would be another three weeks would confirm a top Chinese government appoint experts on state television that the disease could spread among people, it followed two days later by a statement that such data “said suggests that transmission from human to human is doing in Wuhan. ” But Taiwan can not wait to step up precautions. On December 31, the island began health screenings for all flights to Wuhan introduction arrives. “We were both received satisfactory answers can by WHO and the Chinese CDC, and we got nervous and I started our preparation to do,” says Minister of Foreign Joseph Wu TIME. A question of interpretation It took some time, but the email I instructed his colleagues to send that eventually kicked a geopolitical storm. In March, Vice President of Taiwan Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist-turned-politician, the Financial Times said that the WHO the early alarm relay island that the disease could be transmitted from man to man was not able . The Department of State of the United States has the right to, and told not to this important information to the member states “have chosen through the public health policy.” CHI Taiwan has claimed no place in the WHO because of objections from Beijing’s sovereignty over the island, This excluding Taiwan says it is dangerous to public health. was the WHO, which is governed by its Member States and, therefore, no authority on the acceptance is, it says information sharing has the pandemic together with Taiwan. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has homed in on the state of his allies, as it attacks the relationship between WHO and China. With intensifies series and a racist campaign accused by the WHO chief insurance Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Taiwan against him, the island CDC has publicly released its 31 e-mail in December. Written in English over the text reported by “at least seven atypical pneumonia” and find that patients “for treatment in isolation.” They were Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign tells time in an emailed statement that this precaution was the smoking gun “out of very sharp that there is the possibility of human-to-human transmission was” because it would not be necessary if the disease is not contagious. public health officials of this formulation may be an implicit warning against infection, recognize, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Taiwan CDC. Health experts brought from time contact were divided, with some finding that “atypical pneumonia is communicable accepted,” while others say that patients with a potentially new pathogens island, is a sensible precaution. For its part, WHO is not ignoring a warning from Taiwan. The spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said the e-mail WHO Taiwan after Wuhan announcement about the epidemic. The survey adds, no one speaks of transmission from human to human, but experts still has information about the outbreak of sorting forwarded. After Tedros, Taiwan was not the first to flag what is happening in Wuhan. “Many other countries have already been to clarify the matter,” he said. WHO spokesman Paul Garwood says once the December 31 “a health department of a regional bloc of countries”, and another country also marked the outbreak and asked for information, although to-human transmission of man-does not warn you about . Garwood, says he could not publicly say who they were, since such communications are confidential. Stay up to date on the growing threat to global health, by signing up for our daily newsletter crown. Photocopier ‘that the full extent of the outbreak came to fire a growing chorus of government officials, health professionals, editors and scientists began testing the WHO, accusing it of being too deferential to Beijing. In Japan, the Vice Prime Minister Taro Aso noted in March that people in the organization as “Chinese Health Organization” refer to what he described as his connections to Beijing because of this. In Washington, seven Republican senators call for an investigation of crisis management in the WHO and China manipulates if the organization. More than 1 million people have signed a petition for Tedros resignation. What the WHO “coincides exactly” with the Chinese government’s position “raises serious doubts about whether the WHO is exceptional inclusion of desires concentrated in one Member State, namely China,” put out, he said Steve Tsang, director of the China SOAS University of London. The main health researchers have suggested that WHO has created for the continuation of a false sense of reassurance to praise the “transparency” of Beijing, despite reports of possible underestimation and Wuhan officials to punish doctors who had warned about the virus . During the SARS crisis had the Beijing who has publicly criticized for attempting to conceal the epidemic. A spokesman said that the WHO is responsible for the truthful reporting of information remains for Member States. “WHO expects all the data in a timely and accurate reports from Member States,” Jasarevic said. The agency aims to “maintain open communication” in the midst of a crisis, he says. “Call publicly Troubleshooting not. Out” A member of the WHO with its own emergency committee, John Mackenzie, he said that international action would be different if it were not for Beijing “regrettable” response to the Crown and not declared to locate cases in advance. Others blame the WHO and insist that the information coming from China and sounded alarms about earlier infection was less gullible could. “It would have been a hell of a difference,” says Francois Godement, senior adviser for Asia at the Montaigne Institute, a nonprofit group in Paris. “In many countries there is complacency on the infectivity of the virus,” he says, adding that doctors claimed for weeks in France, which has been shown any risk of human to human spread in part because the claims of the WHO China was not confirmed that. Even Taiwan, which is generally wary of information provided by Beijing available was still “fifty per cent of confidence,” said Taiwan CDC. “Why was released not only from China, but also adopted by WHO, we thought there must be a review that was done.” Instead, he says, he has been acting WHO as “copy machine” of China. Asked about the accusation, saying the spokesman Jasarevic. “We Use and analysis of available countries provided” Godement data says that China’s influence has grown throughout the United Nations system, as the second largest economy increase of the compulsory contributions, their role “great expectations China will contribute more “in the budget committee and because the institutions of the United Nations Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-general of the United Nations, said:” the sovereign UN Member States there. to work for the United Nations, it is important that all Member States to actively participate in the work. “the wHO has responded again and again to the criticism that it is too deferential to China and too slow for the flag the possibility of virus infection. “With each new virus, especially a respiratory pathogens, the first and most obvious question that we ask ourselves whether human-to-human transmission is occurring. Epidemiology 101,” says Gabriella Stern, the communications director of the WHO. Stern emphasized the leadership from the WHO issued on January 10 and 11, the additional required information has been shown how the virus’ transmission and intermediate guide offered on the basis of knowledge of other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS. On January 14, a WHO epidemiologist warned about the possibility of “limited” human-to-human transmission is considered as cases with no connection to the fish market where the virus has been, it seems arose. But later the same day, the organization appeared to back down and said that there was “no clear evidence” of such a transfer. Those who say with the inner workings of the WHO that health bodies weigh the information from all possible sources, including government data, the WHO offices, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations and the media. “It is certainly true that the simple information reiterated that the Chinese government or a government relations for the organization,” says Kelley Lee, professor of global health governance at Simon Fraser University, cooperation has the WHO Collaborating Center for Global environmental change and health. “In a global epidemic intelligence surveillance, nothing taken at face value. At the same time, it is true that the type and quality of information on outbreaks in relation to other countries yet changed significantly for a number of reasons,” he says, including reluctance by governments to share information and information not yet disclosed. The trip that changed everything for Taiwan, has fueled his earlier skepticism. The island has suffered badly during the SARS epidemic, the Chinese authorities cover-up had initially tried. So if another unknown developed pneumonia, health officials sprang into action. Less than 100 miles from the mainland of China, Taiwan is expected to be one of the highest numbers of cases are viruses. Yet the island, which is Australia’s population about the size of Maryland, has recorded only 440 cases and deaths in the single digits on hold. Two doctors in Taiwan, along with Hong Kong and Macao experts was to visit one of the top teams in Wuhan investigation. traveling 13 to January 15 fell to a Communist Party conclave, where officials have announced Wuhan new cases per day. This lack of reported infections and the closure of the fish market, where the virus have prompted was thought to have been born to believe many of the outbreak, would soon be over. But visitors learned about the outbreak that optimism. Dr. Chuang Yin-ching, commander of the Taiwan control of communicable diseases Medical Network and a leading expert on the trip, tells long suspected the officers, “something to hide try” because if repeatedly called portability, the answer is not it was clear. Finally, an official said there were two family groups among the confirmed cases, one is a man and his woman involved physically disabled. “The possibility of his wife [go] to the fish market it is zero, so we pretty much be sure that the man transferred to his wife,” says Chuang. This knowledge has been a game changer. The day the experts back Wuhan has submitted a declaration of “limited transmission from human to human,” it was possible to recognize, but said no epidemic in the population had taken place. The Taiwan CDC about the government’s press office, said he shared a “brief summary” of the mission with “like-minded countries”, but declined to reveal which. When asked if the United States was informed, a spokesman for Taiwan would not give him, saying, “Would not it be convenient to make this information available,” at TIME. A senior State Department declined to comment on the details of private conversations. Blessing in disguise Shortly after the fact-finding team returns its command center to coordinate the center capitalized Taiwan epidemic an outbreak response. E ‘was three days before Wuhan has been suspended. Come concerned about the information coming from China, Taiwan hyper-vigilant remained says Lo. “This has helped us to protect our people from the first wave of hit [the] epidemic … otherwise we could have been Italy have, or could have been during this period South Korea,” he says. Paradoxically, Taiwan may have been a blessing exclusion from the WHO, according to Lo. From 2009 to 2016, Taiwan was allowed World Health Assembly meetings as an observer to attend as “Chinese Taipei”. But shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen was finished came into office more distant relatives with China to promote and, when Beijing took a more assertive position on the world stage. The WHO says more interactions between their experts and Taiwan easing, despite the state not of ‘island member. These include the use of Taiwanese health experts taking part in two WHO-COVID 19 goals in January and taking telephone briefing between the WHO and health authorities established in Taipei. He says it again, thinking not kept Taiwan’s full membership was “to work well with, we must have overlooked important information. That really gave us the urgency and fear that is much better to protect us all the necessary media social for research … and should not just rely on WHO goodwill or other countries willingness to share information with us, “he adds. Taiwan has tirelessly tried drumming international support amid the global pandemic, including their country’s long-standing pressure could back into the WHO. In March, he signed the law Trump TAIPEI Washington has called for the inclusion of Taiwan in international organizations such as WHO, a move ready to continue to destabilize the US-China relations to a lawyer. The administration Trump had called for Taiwan’s admission as a company that Member States, approved this week by the World Health Assembly as the crown pandemic. Shortly before the start of Monday’s meeting Taiwan agreed to have their offer, later recommended for participation in fighting eliminating the need for attention event, citing the outbreak. “We still need to WHO,” says Lo. “And we need to be the strongest.”
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