Trump Blames World Health Organization For Coronavirus Crisis

The WHO has come under criticism for being overly deferential to China, even as the country initially concealed news about the spread of the novel coronavirus and failed to disclose alarming data about infections among health care workers for more than a month.

During Donald Trump Tuesday’s White House media briefing on coronavirus he blame the World Health Organization for all the coronavirus deaths in the country shoving aside claims that his administration had its faults in response to the pandemic in the U.S.

President Trump announced that the U.S. would halt funding to the WHO while it looks to a review of the organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The president’s move against the WHO comes as his administration faces mounting criticism over its initial slow/negligence in responding to the pandemic.

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Trump blamed the World Health Organization for severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of coronavirus, as well as for being very “China-centric,” while opposing travel restrictions from China.

The president, however, credited himself with “saving untold numbers of lives,” adding that “thousands and thousands would have died” if he hadn’t restricted travel from China on Jan. 31.

The World Health Organization has come under criticism for being overly deferential to China, even as the country initially concealed news about the spread of the novel coronavirus and failed to disclose alarming data about infections among health care workers for more than a month.

Some of the World Health Organization lapses include not making some very important recommendations like its  guidelines still saying people don’t need to wear face masks in public unless they are sick, while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all Americans wear mask. They also waited until mid-March to declare COVID-19 a pandemic, which most professionals say came too late.

President Trump’s fault may also be that he never took the news of the pandemic serious when he should have done so from late January through early March.

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The U.S. is the leading country in the world with both confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, with more than 600,000 confirmed cases and 25,000 deaths as of Tuesday.

States Governors have repeatedly criticized the central government for the lack of key medical equipment, such as ventilators, and hospitals. Health workers are also reporting a shortage of the personal protective equipment they need to stay safe while taking care of infected patients.

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