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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo switches disease name to 'Wuhan virus' as it spreads in the US
Top US diplomat ignores pleas from Beijing and world health officials over the use of names for the Covid-19 disease that incite racial discrimination. New nomenclature comes with President Donald Trumps administration under fire over its response to community transmission of the virus in the UShttps://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3074050/coronavirus-us-secretary-state-mike-pompeos-wuhan-virus
The US and China appeared headed towards a fresh row on Friday after Washingtons top diplomat Mike Pompeo for the second day running referred to the coronavirus as the Wuhan virus ignoring pleas from Beijing and world health officials for the public to avoid using names for the Covid-19 disease that could incite racial discrimination.
Pompeo's new nomenclature for the virus coincided with a rising tide of criticism that President Donald Trumps administration is facing over its response to community transmission of the virus in the United States. Questions have been swirling over a range of policy hiccups, including a shortage of diagnostic test kits in the US and increasing signs that the Trump administrations bullish view of the effectiveness of travel restrictions in the early days of the outbreak may have been off the mark.
Pompeos use of the term also follows assertions by Chinese officials this week that the virus did not originate in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, as has been widely presumed. The virus has spread far and wide since infections began in the city in December, with the number of people sickened by it worldwide surpassing 100,000 on Friday.
In interviews with CNBC and Fox News on Friday, Pompeo referred to the virus as the Wuhan virus. In response to a question by Pete Hegseth the host of the Fox and Friends morning talk show closely followed by Trump the secretary of state said as a first matter, the Chinese Communist Party has said that this is where the virus started.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo switches disease name to 'Wuhan virus' as it spreads in the US (Original Post)
Celerity
Mar 2020
OP
canetoad
(17,160 posts)1. With every crisis
You can bet your life the Trump admin. will make it worse.
msongs
(67,405 posts)2. TRUMP virus nt
murielm99
(30,740 posts)7. That is what I call it, too.
I will continue to use that term.
renate
(13,776 posts)3. I love the smell of Trump desperation in the morning
Guess what, chumps?
Were not fooled. Even your syncophants arent fooled.
Sure, theyll still happily die for you, because they are not intelligent or discerning. But even they can understand that this isnt going away just because you relabel it.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)4. They are all loathesome swine
Celerity
(43,359 posts)6. here is the head pig
dhill926
(16,339 posts)5. Orwell twitches in his grave...
Girard442
(6,071 posts)8. Why not just call it "The Yellow Peril" and be done with it.
gab13by13
(21,337 posts)9. The MSM, Republicans and Democrats alike will follow suit.
Prime example, we are calling Trump's fence a wall.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)11. I'm switching Pompeo's name
To Horses backside.