Reckoning with the WHO’s handling of health crises

Throughout the pandemic, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has starred in Chinese propaganda videos for heaping lavish praise on Chinese authorities, despite the government’s alleged coverup of the outbreak and ham-fisted response.

Health Minister Patty Hajdu recently dismissed questions about whether China was offering misleading coronavirus figures as 'conspiracy theories.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALEX LEE

April 22, 2020

On April 16, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would halt funding for the World Health Organization. Many believe that this is a ploy to distract from American struggles to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. But a sober look at the WHO reveals that the organiz...

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