Taiwan Says It Tried to Warn the World About Coronavirus. Here's What It Really Knew and When

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When they heard about patients falling sick with a mysterious pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec. 31, Taiwan’s health officials fired off an email to the World Health Organization asking for more information.

This four-sentence inquiry has since become fodder for the political brawl between China and the U.S. and threatens to bruise the reputation of the U.N.’s health agency as it leads the fight against an unprecedented global pandemic.

Taiwanese and U.S. officials have seized on the email to argue the WHO ignored an early warning that the coronavirus could likely be transmitted between people. In the weeks following the Dec. 31 note, the WHO echoed Chinese officials that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission”— even as cases began cropping up that raised suspicion of contagion.

In an interview with TIME, Dr. Lo Yi-chun, the deputy director-general of Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says the WHO should have acted on Taiwan’s query by conducting its own investigation. Instead, he says the WHO “provided a false sense of security to the world.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taiwan-says-it-tried-to-warn-the-world-about-coronavirus-heres-what-it-really-knew-and-when/ar-BB14hrHx?li=BBnb7Kz

[Igel]

1. So at 6:30 am somebody in Taiwan asked.

Based on social media posts that had vanished but been reposted elsewhere.

And at 1:30 pm, later that day, the PCR notified the WHO.

It's idle curiosity, of course, but I wonder how long the PCR would have continued to suppress social media posts if Taiwan hadn't (among, presumably, others) asked for more information?

If WHO had said that the PCR denied everything, it would have reeked. But until it got to that point, not a word.

Transparency. Like the Great Wall.

[LizBeth]

2. Seemed to me I was reading about it and talking about it middle of Dec.

[stillcool]

3. Taiwan may be closer to independence..

seems to me that's the game that is afoot.

[11 Bravo]

4. My fear is that the fat, feckless, fuck in the White House has emboldened China ...

to actually consider a military takeover of Taiwan.