Health
‘Maybe they need hearing aids’: WHO rejects criticisms it didn’t raise pandemic alarm early enough – Sydney Morning Herald
WHO announced its highest level of alert – a public health emergency of international concern – on January 30 but did not describe it as a “pandemic” until March…
London: Senior World Health Organisation officials have suggested that countries overseeing major coronavirus outbreaks have only themselves to blame for ignoring warnings and those accusing the WHO of not sounding the alarm loudly enough need hearing aids.
Dr Mike Ryan, who oversees the WHOs Health Emergencies program made the strongest response to criticisms about the organisations performance at the start of the pandemic, as the virus spread from Wuhan to the rest of the world via Italy.
Many…
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