WHO's infamous COVID-19 human-to-human transmission tweet was to 'balance' coverage

[Counselor706]

The World Health Organization may have already known that the coronavirus was spread from human-to-human despite saying the contrary in a now-infamous tweet.

In a report from The Guardian, a top member of the WHO sounded the alarm about the potential for human-to-human transmission of COVID-19. The WHO tweeted that the Chinese government had "found no clear evidence" on the same day as the head of the WHO's emerging diseases warned about the potential for a rapid "super-spreading" event.

The official Twitter account for the World Health Organization, which has over 7.4 million followers, tweeted: "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."

On Jan. 14, the same day as the WHO's "no human-to-human transmission" tweet, the agency's technical lead on coronavirus was cautioning everyone about the potential of mass human transmission.

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[Fuzzy1975]

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WHO twitter followers 7.4 million one incorrect factual tweet based upon yet unclear evidence

Donald J Trump 55 million twitter followers, uncountable numerical numbers of incorrect or factually unfounded tweets...

 

[bellisarius]

Never another penny of US taxpayer money to WHO.

 

[stickygirl]

As referenced in the source
"While the emergency committee took a week to decide to declare a PHEIC, Trump spent more than a month after that playing down the threat to the US, during which the country fell weeks behind the rest of the world in diagnostic testing and stockpiling essential equipment.
There is no evidence to support Trump’s claim that the WHO hid information at China’s behest. The US is well represented in the top ranks of the organisation. There were more than a dozen officials from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) embedded in the WHO in January and February."

The Blaze - Fox News huh?