.MaddowBlog: White House's case against World Health Organization crumbles
reportedMore than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials....
But this obviously wasn't quite right: U.S. officials knew what the World Health Organization knew in real time.added,"15 officials from his administration were embedded with the WHO in Geneva, working full time, hand-in-glove with the organization on the virus from the very first day China disclosed the outbreak to the world, Dec. 31. At least six other U.S.
When Trump started lashing out at the World Health Organization, it had all the characteristics of a post-hoc rationalization: the president had cycled through a series of people and institutions he hoped to blame for his administration's missteps, and the WHO became a convenient target that struggled to fight back.
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