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It’s partly because around a week ago we discovered evidence that Chinese leadership was well aware of person to person transmission on the day that tweet was sent.

https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9

There is a lot that a mission-driven version of the WHO would have done differently. This Zeynep Tufekci piece does a good job of detailing that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world...

> This mission-driven WHO would not have brazenly tweeted, as late as January 14, that “preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.” That claim was false, and known by the authorities in Wuhan to be false.. Taiwan had already told the WHO of the truth too. On top of that, the day before that tweet was sent, there had been a case in Thailand: a woman from Wuhan who had traveled to Thailand, but who had never been to the seafood market associated with the outbreak—which strongly suggested that the virus was already spreading within Wuhan.