“Travel restrictions can cause more harm than good by hindering info-sharing, medical supply chains and harming economies,” said the World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
12:18 PM · Jan 14, 2020 "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."
WHO waited full week to Jan 30 before declaring "outbreak meeting the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern".
> Shutting down ALL internal Chinese travel from Wuhan, but letting international departures - that did happen, after all the more the merrier, let the world share our misery. ...
implying China allowed the flights to leave so they can infect the rest of the world, when in fact China did stop international flights from leaving, but the US, UK governments lobbied hard for these repatriation flights due to their own domestic politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/coronavirus-flights-wu...
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/us-wuhan-evacuation-fl...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/05/cdc-says-us-is-accepting-fou...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/two-more...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-trav...
https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-britain/british...
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavir...
“Travel restrictions can cause more harm than good by hindering info-sharing, medical supply chains and harming economies,” said the World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152
12:18 PM · Jan 14, 2020 "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."
WHO waited full week to Jan 30 before declaring "outbreak meeting the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern".