“Since the beginning of the outbreak, we have been continuously sharing information on the epidemic with the WHO and the international community in an open, transparent and responsible manner,” said Liu Mingzhu, an official with the National Health Commission’s International Department, at aThe race to find the genetic map of the virus started in late December, according to the story that unfolds in interviews, documents and the WHO recordings.
Chinese law states that research institutes cannot conduct experiments on potentially dangerous new viruses without approval from top health authorities. Although the law is intended to keep experiments safe, it gives top health officials wide-ranging powers over what lower-level labs can or cannot do.
On Jan. 5, the Shanghai Public Clinical Health Center, led by famed virologist Zhang Yongzhen, was the latest to sequence the virus. He submitted it to the GenBank database, where it sat awaiting review, and notified the National Health Commission. He warned them that the new virus was similar to SARS and likely infectious.
A major factor behind the gag order, some say, was that Chinese CDC researchers wanted to publish their papers first. “They wanted to take all the credit,” said Li Yize, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. The article also embarrassed WHO officials. Dr. Tom Grein, chief of WHO’s acute events management team, said the agency looked “doubly, incredibly stupid.” Van Kerkhove, the American expert, acknowledged WHO was “already late” in announcing the new virus and told colleagues that it was critical to push China.
“We have to be consistent,” Ryan said. “The danger now is that despite our good intent...especially if something does happen, there will be a lot of finger-pointing at WHO.” Supaporn compared her sequence with Zhang’s and found it was a 100% match, confirming that the Thai patient was ill with the same virus detected in Wuhan. Another Thai lab got the same results. That day, Thailand informed the WHO, said Tanarak Plipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control at Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health.
“The pressure is intense in an outbreak to make sure you’re right,” said Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealthAlliance in New York. “It’s actually worse to go out to go to the public with a story that’s wrong because the public completely lose confidence in the public health response.”Infectious diseases expert John Mackenzie, who served on a WHO emergency committee during the outbreak, praised the speed of Chinese researchers in sequencing the virus.
True, but once the information was released, but did countries like the US and UK do? Therefore, would it have made much of a difference for those countries who ignored the threat?
So what, it’s not like the USA doesn’t have intel, and didn’t know it was coming. What ever happened here was our own fault, and our ineptitude made it worse. Vote blue.
Researchers from Shanghai submitted full genome to NCBI on 5th Jan nearly one week earlier than what you reported. It is unethical to deliberately leave out some facts:
If I said: 'Jack Dorsey is on expensive knee pads stroking and swallowing the salty goo of the Kleptokrauts of Technocracy cause he is the last thing any decent man would become.' You think anyone would edit me?
Judging from the results most countries didn't care even after a month it was made public... Some don't even care now after all this time...
But yet they defended them!
A little too late WHO!
It’s for those idiots who blamed Trump and accused him to racism. This communist are sucks and disgusting they are responsible for this disaster and they have to pay addition WHO covered their mess and is as guilty as them. So many innocent people died
What a photo op! The day when the US abdicated it’s global leadership
Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO mvankerkhove all you and your dedicated staff's efforts over the years to establish the fine reputation your organization used to have have been severely damaged by Tedros actions, inactions and highly suspicious relationship with China.
Stop trying to distract us from what really matters,
Blind Freddy could see something WAS happening Dr Ryan and despite 30 years of pandemic planning and exercises you guys watched it unfold in slow motion. The question is why?
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the world just needs the vaccine. Please let's get this done.
China lies people dies expect in Vietnam Why? Vietnam didn’t fall for the same BS as the rest of the world did
What the fuck is happening in my country & world I am 68 years old & scared what is going on scared for my children & my grandchildren please peace is what we all need
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