WaPo: Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-at-world-health-organization-transmitted-real-time-information-about-coronavirus-to-trump-administration/2020/04/19/951c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html

More 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.

A number of CDC staffers are regularly detailed to work at WHO in Geneva as part of a rotation that has operated for years. Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.

The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s charge that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States.

That sure is interesting.

[underpants]

1. You just beat me to it.

[ok_cpu]

2. The last two paragraphs are such a surprise, I tell you...

Any information of a sensitive nature about the growing outbreak was and continues to be shared by CDC officials with other U.S. officials in a secure facility located behind the CDC’s Emergency Operations Center at its Atlanta headquarters.

In the early days of the virus response, those officials included HHS Secretary Alex Azar. Information about what the WHO was planning to do or announce was often shared days in advance, the CDC official said.

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[underpants]

9. Thanks

Details are always at the bottom

[mucifer]

3. Key words "Late Last Year".

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[RockRaven]

6. Of course they did. And we already knew - because Trump said otherwise, and he ALWAYS lies.

ALWAYS.

[modrepub]

7. Either

Trump administration is extremely incompetent or their "deep state" philosophy had them mistrust/ignore anything coming from a government official We have try and communicate to people that putting folks with a deep seated distrust of bureaucrats in positions of power is not good for the nation.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. He didn't trust US Intell community or WHO. He trusted his own instinct. Dereliction of duty. . . nt