Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission warning
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Taiwanese friends tell me that during the SARS outbreak, China refused to share data with them which it shared with every other country. Taiwan was hit very hard because they were flying blind. This led them to establish independent monitoring and early warning systems since they have extensive trade and cultural links with China and large numbers of travelers.
The current VP of Taiwan is an epidemiologist who was the health minister during the SARs outbreak and their current response has been one of the most effective (108 cases, 1 death).
Every country would want to work with Taiwan on this issue not ostracize them like the WHO. They are like a monitoring and early-warning system for these kinds of pathogens coming out of China.
And all sources that put Taiwan as a province of China should change it.
( Won't happen though)
A journalist asked World Health Organization’s assistant director-general Bruce Aylward whether the UN body would reconsider Taiwan’s membership, got “I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear your question… let’s move to another one then…”; and when the journalist asked to comment on Taiwan’s effort, got “we’ve already talked about China.”
[1]: https://twitter.com/emilyrauhala/status/1243905923048976384
(Which is supporting your “Won't happen though”.)
While I generally agree with your overall point, this statistics is severely out of date. As of this post, the current numbers are 283 cases and 2 deaths[0][1].
[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html; numbers can lag by a day or two.
1. No evidence of human to human transmission
2. No need to ban travel from China. Ineffective
3. It is not a pandemic
4. Some twitter threads who WHO adding traditional chinese medicine in their list of medicines for COVID-19 in their chinese language posts.
5. Masks do not work.
If the WHO can't be independent, can't say things truly, and they never had any sovereign authority to begin with, what good exactly are they?
2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-idUSKBN1...
3. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/health/who-coronavirus-not-pa...
Can't comment on 4.
5. it's a little bit complicated as I believe they are just not recommending masks unless you are sick or caring for the sick.
#3 obviously every pandemic was not always a pandemic.
RKI (Robert Koch Institut) in Germany is the same. Incompetent, unable to produce proper graphs or measurements, but great at making press conferences televised by the state television bureaucrats.
Source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-helped-put-man-...
Aside: perhaps FT could chip in with the rest of the world here by making any of their articles about coronavirus open access...
Edit: curious about downvotes - it’s my first time circumventing a paywall. Disclaimer: I would describe myself as a capitalist hippie.