[Zancarius]

It appears China did actually donate $20 million to the WHO[1], but I'm not sure what this means. I've seen claims that they've walked back statements immediately following the donations, and whether or not that's true seems to be mostly opinion. I'm sure it influenced the WHO but how much is difficult to say.

Maybe I'm grossly naive too, but it seems incredibly myopic to assume that everything coming out of the WHO is now immediately suspect when the facts are pretty clear that we just don't know much about this virus and probably won't for quite some time. There have been one or two early papers coming out questioning how transmissible the virus is, but I think the data is just too limited.

Without the World Health Organization, we're left with the CDC... and not much else.

FWIW the Gates Foundation was also going to donate $20 million to the WHO[2].

[1] http://www.china.org.cn/world/2020-03/08/content_75787774.ht...

[2] https://observer.com/2020/02/bill-melinda-gates-donate-100m-...