"no evidence of human to human transmission of COVID" around january 2020.
. Would you have preferred they lie and say they did have evidence when they didn’t yet? Your claim is a misrepresentation. From Politifact:
"Speaking on the "Fox Across America" radio show, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick accused global health officials of failing earlier this year to warn the world about the coming coronavirus pandemic.
"For the World Health Organization, the international entity whose sole responsibility it is to alert the world of global pandemics, to miss this, is a huge problem," Fitzpatrick, a Republican,
told radio host Jimmy Failla.
We wondered whether Fitzpatrick’s stinging criticism was fair and what exactly the WHO told the public about the coronavirus in the pandemic’s earliest days.
Fitzpatrick was referring to a
Jan. 14 tweet from the WHO, which stated that "preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."
A
timeline of events on the WHO’s website about its actions on Jan. 14 offers a different account of what the organization told the public that day, indicating deeper concern than what was reflected in the tweet.
The timeline states that on that date, a WHO official noted in a press briefing that there "may have been" limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus between family members and that there was "a risk of a possible outbreak."
Nearly a week later, according to the timeline, WHO investigators visited Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus originated, and learned that
there was evidence of human-to-human transmission, a major development that contradicted the Chinese government claims cited in the organization’s Jan. 14 tweet.
Another week after that, the WHO’s director-general declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a "
public health emergency of international concern," a rare designation meant to convey the extraordinary and serious nature of an unfolding health crisis."
Trump a racist for closing borders to suppress COVID from entering the country.
. He didn’t close the borders. Another false statement. He prohibited Chinese people from entering the country, but not non-Chinese traveling from China. It was discriminatory. And we soon saw an increase against violence against Asians in the U.S.
Experts and the most vocal supporters of vaccines have been wrong about literally everything to do with COVID for the past 2 years.
"literally everything?" Do you want them to adjust their advice based on the latest science, data, and mutations or not? They aren’t prophets or politicians. Every day our understanding of the virus and it’s strains improves and changes, as more information is gathered and more study is done.
