Health officials in Taiwan say they warned the World Health Organization in December 2019 that the coronavirus could be passed via human-to-human contact, but the organization ignored its warnings, possibly due to its relationship with China, where the virus originated.
The Financial Times reported Friday that Taiwan made the claim, insisting the WHO didn’t communicate the possible ease of transmission early enough. Taiwan, the Times noted, “is excluded from the WHO because China, which claims it as part of its territory, demands that third countries and international bodies to not treat it in any way that resembles how independent states are treated.”
The Taiwanese health officials said doctors in the country learned that medical staff on mainland China were getting ill, suggesting human-to-human contact was possible. Officials in Taipei said they reported the information at the end of December 2019. Taiwanese government officials who spoke to the Times said their warnings were not shared by the WHO.
“While the [International Health Regulations’] internal website provides a platform for all countries to share information on the epidemic and their response, none of the information shared by our country’s [Centers for Disease Control] is being put up there,” Taiwan Vice President Chen Chien-jen told the Times. “The WHO could not obtain first-hand information to study and judge whether there was human-to-human transmission of Covid-19. This led it to announce human-to-human transmission with a delay, and an opportunity to raise the alert level both in China and the wider world was lost.”
Chen is an epidemiologist and was Taiwan’s health minister during the SARS outbreak, the Times reported.
In response, the WHO told the Times that it had to “hold frank and open discussions on sometimes sensitive issues” and “respect the confidentiality of such communications.”
The Times reported that the Who “has had to strike a delicate balance with China throughout the outbreak, with some accusing the organization of being too pliant while medical experts said it had coped admirably.”
The Daily Caller reported that weeks after Taiwan warned them, the WHO on January 14 said the coronavirus wasn’t transferred from human-to-human contact, parroting China’s claims at the time. Reuters reported that the WHO downplayed the potential transmission, saying for the first time on that day there may have been human-to-human transmission. On January 15, the head of China’s CDC emergency center claimed the risk of human-to-human transmission was “low.”
This was no accidsent it was deliiberate the World Heath Organization is all part of the United Nations they will want to use this as a excuse for World Government all run by the Usless Nations who was never created for Peace no doves there just too many vultures and the Eagle needs to leave as well let them take care of their own problems we can aid them after a disaster
Our impeachment was also to blame as the Dems inhibited our government with nonsense.
“THE DEMOCRATS TRIED AND PEOPLE DIED”
I presume this story is being rolled out to distract from numerous reports that our own intelligence community was trying to warn the Trump administration of the serious threat of a pandemic beginning in early February. So, blame China, blame WHO, blame Obama, blame Democrats, etc etc.
Horse manure. There was no direct evidence in December that person-to-person transmission was taking place. It was thought that the infection was contracted by contact with products from a particular fish and animal market in Wuhan. A few dozen people were affected.
WHO had already activated its incident management system with respect to the cluster of illnesses by January 2. The responsible virus wasn’t identified by China until January 7. The first death occurred on January 11. The first confirmed case outside of China was in Thailand, on January 13. On January 20 WHO issued their first Novel Coronavirus Situation Report.
@Greg: Good job commie boy! Call the health officials of Taiwan liars but believe the organ harvesting test destroying leaders of China, So why not all your evidence of the US militarys germ warfare on them too?
Hey maybe we can buy some of those collapsible buildings for hospitals or quarantine in NY.
@kitt, #4:
I’m more inclined to call the writer at The Daily Wire a liar, or at least a practitioner of shoddy journalism. At the time, person-to-person transmission was speculation.
So why would such a claim now be made? You might be aware that a certain adversarial relationship exists between Taiwan and the government of mainland China.
Whatever else you might think of the government of mainland China—and there are certainly plenty of reasons to have very negative thoughts—they have been dealing effectively with an extremely dangerous pandemic at ground zero. Their response has been more effective than our own, and we, unlike them, had advance warning what was headed our way. That’s not a political endorsement. It’s a factual observation. It’s not just a matter of an authoritarian government and an obedient population, either. We were slow even in telling our public what was coming and what would need to be done to deal with it. We lost several weeks that could have gone into more orderly local and household preparation because of that.
@Greg: You are using the information from China, what happened to the Doctor that sounded the Alarm, to make your point. Then you point out the first case outside China was confirmed in the same country that made the claims. Brother this has Nothing to do with covering for Trump not 1 damn thing.
China is threatening to withhold drugs, I am so F’king done with China XI when they try to say the germ they denied was transmittable was released by our military.
Why was WHO in China requesting information on this kung Flu?
Try to use your thinking skills and not you knee jerk reaction to claim this is all about the free renter in your head. Read the article it was the Financial Times first reports not the daily wire.
@kitt, #6:
Investigating localized outbreaks of any new and unidentified disease to evaluate the threat it might represent is one of their primary organization missions. They do this constantly. We usually just don’t hear about it. They’re also monitoring new Ebola outbreaks in the Congo.
WHO has been openly worried about the appearance of a hypothetical “Disease X” for several years now. The term hasn’t been in the news much, but there’s concern that coronavirus may turn out to be the first of that category. I just heard a doctor on CNN expressing concern that coronavirus might turn into the equivalent of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. That’s a seriously scary comparison. It would have qualified as a Disease X if the term had existed at the time.
The 1918 flu was recently genetically sequenced from tissue samples taken from a 1918 victim that had been buried in the Alaskan permafrost. It turned out to be an H1N1 variant—a strain of the bird flu epidemiologists have been worried about.
@Greg: So CNN finds a doctor to terrify its viewers drive them to buy guns that they dont know how to load let alone aim.
Do you get it yet? Can the hyenas drive the stock market to 12000? Can they get unemployment to 50%
They are a tool of the Deepstate that wants a China government model, for its NWO.
WHO praised Chinas handling of its outbreak.
So lets begin by Trumps choice of News coverage only like Xi enjoys.
@KITT, #8:
Coronavirus truly is a very serious threat. Some people, if not most, need to be frightened to motivate the inconvenient and unpleasant behavioral changes that will greatly reduce transmission. Truthful information is sufficient to do that. Truth can sometimes be scary.
Fear is an adaptive survival feature hardwired into human beings. It keeps us out of trouble or even alive when we respond to it in a rational fashion. False reassurances may be far more comfortable, but they can lead to denial, delay, and to far greater danger. There’s no time for that.
@Greg: Stress is horrible for the immune system, fear isnt working, the socialist brainwashed kids are going the the Florida beaches to get wasted then layed not possible at 6 feet. Is it so hard for you? This is a different kind of woke.
Are you afraid of falling out of bed?
Maybe the kids should do some reading while sunning themselves on the beach:
March 21, 2020 – Coronavirus: Italian doctors warn COVID-19 can make young people seriously ill
Dr Antonio Pesenti, the head of Lombardy’s intensive crisis care unit:
I suppose Alabama and Georgia could close their borders with Florida.
@Greg: Shame the Socialists in college dont teach logic and reasoning when they prioritize on making insanity normal and science secondary how many genders are there, you can choose what gender you are.
@Greg:
Oh, wait, remind me again which side of the aisle was slamming President Trump when he shut down travel with China on JANUARY 31ST.
Then you have the cajones to site the WHO who has been in the pocket of the Chi-Coms for a decade. Who do you think pressured the WHO to prevent Taiwan from joining the WHO? I’m sure, being the multi-knowledge expert you are you have the answer to that, right?
You need to get some new glasses, Comrade Greggie.
Maybe that “doctor” should do a historical research on the 1918 Spanish Flu. President Wilson (D) ordered the medical world to not report on the Spanish Flu (some claim it started in Kansas) and instead, continued with his recruiting of young American men, many who had already contracted the virus, to go get on troop ships to fight in WWII spreading the pandemic to other nations.
BTW, why are you being so xenophobic by calling the 1918 flu the “Spanish” flu? What do you have against Hispanics?
Also, fear is not good for anything. Rational thinking and rational precautions are. What ever happened to “we have nothing to fear but fear itself?”
So as you decry the cause of the China Virus by basically sticking up for WHO who botched this pandemic (again, who has been in the pocket of the Chinese for a decade) how about this from one of your trusted sources:
“Other countries can learn important lessons from Italy, says Dr. Giuseppe Remuzzi, co-author of a recent paper in The Lancet about the country’s dire situation. The takeaways include how to swiftly convert a general hospital into a coronavirus care unit with specially trained doctors and nurses.
“We had dermatologists, eye doctors, pathologists, learning how to assist a person with a ventilator,” Remuzzi says.
Some question why Italy was caught off guard when the virus outbreak was revealed on Feb. 21.
Remuzzi says he is now hearing information about it from general practitioners. “They remember having seen very strange pneumonia, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even November,” he says. “This means that the virus was circulating, at least in [the northern region of] Lombardy and before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.”
That, from NPR.
The Chi-Coms had a problem in November. They knew they had a problem. They hid that problem from the world and now the rest of the world is paying the price and you are too damn stupid to acknowledge that.
Comrade Greggie, you are a TOTAL idiot.
I like when greg is ordered to go into damage control mode, writing much, saying little.
Our response to the corona virus has been adequate, but an in-depth analysis about it should be reserved for after the crisis. The Dems killed people with their impeachment, we’ve found, so we just need to make sure they don’t compromise our government further.
Fear is good? Not when it’s being propagated and mongered by the Democrats and their propaganda machine. It’s going to cost them big in November.
@retire05: Greg refuses to see that Chinas model of central control, no choice, worship the state only and absolute control of he health system and means of all production in the country failed. They were over whelmed by the virus they tried to deny. The Chinese workers in Italy traveling home and back were the cause of the horrid outbreak in that country. Their form of socialist medicine quickly overwhelmed.
They didnt want to be called racist by closing off travel from China.
@retire05, #13:
The “doctor” actually is, and without quotation marks. She was not being an alarmist. Projections of the spread, the fatality rate, and the limitations of our healthcare system indicate that a 1918 outcome could be an entirely real possibility. It can only be headed off by using the best tool we presently have—social distancing. It appears to be working in China.
Are they smarter than we are? How smart are people who see the best tool we have as something that must be discredited and resisted?
The influenza epidemic was already raging in both Europe and America when Wilson reluctantly made the decision to send reinforcements. He knew the risk. The public was already fully aware of the epidemic. Well people were sickening and dying over the course of a single day. The reason he sent reinforcements to Europe was because influenza and its complications had already put 20 to 40 percent of U.S. military personnel out of action, and nobody had put the war on hold because of it.
Nonsense. It’s a totally essential survival response, as is pain. Our species wouldn’t have evolved without it, and wouldn’t continue to exist without it. What was his other, better option?
I always consider the source of that comment.
@kitt, #15:
They have apparently slowed the spread of coronavirus infection dramatically, by essentially putting their economic growth on hold so that people could be kept out of close contact with one another. They rightly calculated that the resultant hit on the national economy would be less disastrous than letting the virus spread until it brought everything to a complete standstill.
If we don’t learn something from their dramatic reduction in new cases, we might be too dumb to live. Accepting a serious but temporary economic slowdown is a matter of choosing the lesser evil.
@Greg:
No, it’s being “rolled out” to provide facts instead of liberal propaganda. China has been lying but, of course as we have clearly established, Democrats LOVE liars. So they believe China before Trump.
Do you DENY China told WHO that there was no human to human infection? Do you DENY that was a lie? Oh… that’s right. You give communists buckets of “benefit of the doubt”. Because communists are always so truthful.
@retire05:
People like Greg HAVE to defend WHO. WHO is one of the “experts” that Trump supposedly ignores. Showing that WHO just blindly repeats lies out of China doesn’t help their case.
The only thing I fear is how much damage Democrats are willing to cause to seize power.
@Deplorable Me:
No, I don’t. They told the World Health Organization that early on, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF DIRECT PERSON-TO-PERSON TRANSMISSION AT THE TIME. They didn’t know yet what they were dealing with. It appeared to relate to contact with produce at a particular fish and animal market.
Every frickin’ thing is a political team match with some people. Wake the hell up. We’ve suddenly got way bigger issues than who wins the next election. Economic schemes and plans have suddenly gone out the window. Everything has changed. Whoever wins the fall election is going to have one helluva problem. Nobody has actually figured out the size and shape of it yet, let alone the solutions.
@Greg:
Why was it called “Spanish” flu, Comrade Greggie? And no, the public was not aware of the pandemic, even after almost 200,000 Americans died in the month of October 1918 alone.
I don’t know where you get your revisionist history, but you would not pass a third grade basic history test.
Read and learn, and stop being such an apologist for all things to do with the Democrat Party:
“Even with the number of sick and infected soldiers, President Wilson decided against his chief physician’s advice and sent in thousands of more soldiers on transport ships to the frontlines in France, which seemed to have resulted in the virus spreading across the world. This was not surprising, since troop ships were crammed from stem to stern with soldiers, causing a spread of the illness among the troops. There’s nothing more crowded than a troop ship; it’s just being jammed in there like sardines and if somebody has a respiratory disease, everybody’s going to get it. Looking at what happened from afar, Wilson’s decision resulted in the virus spreading across the world, from Kansas to the front lines and outward from there.
President Woodrow Wilson failed to inform the people of America about the devastating effects of Spanish Influenza. When US soldiers arrived in France on what was called ‘floating coffins’, around 200,000 soldiers fell sick, with many being affected on the transport ships. To soldiers and civilians alike, what was attacking them was not any ordinary influenza, but they had no answers.
The most shocking part of the flu was the deafening silence of the government and neither national nor local governments addressed the fast-moving pandemic.
The most shocking part of the flu was the deafening silence of the government and neither national nor local governments addressed the fast-moving pandemic. With a lack of information and almost no advice from public health officials, people in the United States had no answers but expected a mass extinction had the disease continued to grow and develop at the pace it was going.”
https://www.laprogressive.com/spanish-flu/
Thanks for affirming my contention you’re an idiot, Comrade Greggie.
@Greg: Why do you think more men in Italy were being infected and dying than women? The one child rule in China is an easy one to figure out. Your love of panicking the public is too, you whore.
@Greg:
Uh…WE KNOW THAT…
…you do not.
You and your party have exploited dead Americans for political gain. You attacked Trump. Him defending himself is NOT an attack on you, having now the gall to claim such.
As usual, the Dems hide their actions by accusing you of what they just did…
Everyone is coming together except the Left and their media propagandists.
This isn’t the time, greg. Stop spreading disinformation and try to help.
Greg:
There were HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of victims. Either it is transmitted between people or that is one big, bad batch of bat soup. Don’t be so stupid and don’t assume everyone else is that stupid.
Yeah… with the goddamn degenerate Democrats who try to turn every crisis and tragedy into a touchdown for their side. YOU take the side of degenerate communists against your own country, just to try and ding Trump. You can hardly get lower than that, but I’m sure and that miserable AJ will continue to sink lower.
Correction: if Trump DOESN’T win, this nation has a terribly serious problem.
@Greg:
It is apparent that you believe anything put out by the Chi-Coms. How do you know for sure that the Chi-Coms are being truthful? Oh, wait, you don’t because when the U.S. offered to send scientists to China to help them get a hold on the China Virus, China flatly refused the help. But here you are, swallowing any propaganda by out by the Chinese State like the whore you are.
No, we don’t. God help us if senile Joe Biden wins. The man doesn’t even know where he is most of the time. How brilliant of him to come out with his suggestions for fighting this crisis except…………………..he simply parroted what Trump had already done as if they were new and brilliant ideas.
You confirm you’re an idiot, Comrade Greggie.
@kitt, #21:
They think the gender disparity is probably a combination of hormonal differences and men’s much higher rates of tobacco usage. It can’t all be attributed to lung damage from higher rates of male tobacco usage because coronavirus-infected male laboratory mice have a higher death rate that infected female laboratory mice.
@retire05, #24:
FOX News has been pedaling the same line of bullshit this evening.
It isn’t a matter of defending the Chinese. It’s a matter of seeing through the more obvious bullshit. I know what was said by whom, and when, because it was reported at the time by the mainstream media that you hate so much. I know what Trump said and when, because that was also reported at the time.
The Chinese proved the effectiveness of social distancing, or whatever you want to call temporarily keeping people from interacting in ways that rapidly promote the spread of the virus. If we don’t acknowledge that and learn from it, a month or two from now we’ll wish to hell we had, and it won’t make a damn bit of difference who you try to pin the blame on.
@Greg: It couldnt be they were infected at a higher rate because of the street walkers and massage parlors? Not a question about the survival rate if you read the question and can comprehend its meaning. wow the male mice are heavier smokers?
You might want to read the article link in #15
It is also telling of the Chinese medical system.
For some reason the death rate from coronavirus infection is higher for males than females within every age group.
@Greg: Ask any wife the Husband is always sicker than anyone else that gets ill in the house, or at least he thinks so. 😉
@Greg:
Yeah, it really is. You hate Donald Trump so much that you will take the word of the Chi-Coms over your own government and will defend the Chi-Coms, even though it is now being reported that the Chi-Coms destroyed the early evidence of the lab results for the China Virus.
You’re not only an idiot, your a useful idiot, Comrade Greggie.
So spare me the “we are all in this together” bullsh!t, Comrade Greggie. You have been pimping for the Chi-Coms for days.
@Greg:
We’ve seen through your bullshit. We’ve seen through the bullshit of the Democrat party. You should see that.
@Deplorable Me: Who is not a fan of the US. CA and WHO are the only organizations that considers Round-up a carcinogen. Even Obama’s EPA could not find any evidence of a carcinogen. There are many other incidences like this.