[giantDinosaur]

It's just poor communication, anybody who parrots 'evidence' to the average audience will know full well that 'no evidence' => 'evidence _against_ something'. That's a really, really basic way to mess up when communicating this. I don't know why it's so bad. I think this is certainly a case where an educated journalist should not simply consume literally the WHO's output, and should instead term it in ways commonly understood to be closer to the truth.

[javagram]

The final 3 paragraphs of the 9-paragraph CNN article are a quote from a non-WHO expert doctor on the subject of the article. It does look like they tried to contextualize it and not just literally repeat the WHO announcement.

I would put more blame on the WHO for this than CNN in any case. It’s fair to say the way the WHO reported this was misunderstood, but the WHO themselves tweeted the same type of wording out directly on Twitter.