How WHO Became China’s Coronavirus Accomplice
Beijing is pushing to become a public health superpower—and quickly found a willing international partner.
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Is CDC Tracking Patients Who Decline COVID-19 Shots?
Diagnostic codes that allow health care providers to collect data on people who decline COVID-19 shots are raising questions in Congress.
China’s global healthcare ambitions: Gaining influence on the international stage
As part of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing announced the concept of a “Health Silk Road” (HSR) in 2015. Like the BRI itself, the HSR is very much an incarnation of Beijing’s global ambitions, argues Jacob Mardell.
WHO says it is ‘assured’ that coronavirus is ‘natural in origin’ as US probes Wuhan lab
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said it is “assured” that the novel coronavirus, which has turned into a global pandemic, is “natural in origin” — this as the U.S. is increasingly eyeing a lab in Wuhan, China, as where the deadly outbreak may have started.
World Health Coronavirus Disinformation
The coronavirus pandemic will offer many lessons in what to do better to save more lives and do less economic harm the next time. But there’s already one way to ensure future pandemics are less deadly: Reform or defund the World Health Organization (WHO).
Fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic: China’s Influence at the World Health Organization
The WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has shown an evident bias to accept Chinese declarations and denials at face value – this has created a delay in international responses.. This in spite of a very limited Chinese contribution to WHO, but it matches the weakness of other UN organizations in the face of China’s powerful campaigning. As China itself has reversed course on the epidemic, the WHO becomes once more an irreplaceable tool in health emergencies.
Wuhan lockdown ‘unprecedented’, shows commitment to contain virus: WHO representative in China
China’s decision to lock down Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, shows how committed the authorities are to contain a viral outbreak that emerged in a seafood market there, a World Health Organization representative in Beijing said.