Recordings Reveal WHO's Analysis Of The Coronavirus Pandemic In Private Was Opposite What They Were Saying In Public

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, center, speaks during a news conference on updates regarding the coronavirus COVID-19, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on March 9, 2020 (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone FILE via AP) 

ABC News/AP: Recordings reveal WHO's analysis of pandemic in private 

As its annual meeting is underway this week, the World Health Organization is under intense pressure to reform 

GENEVA -- As the coronavirus explodes again, the World Health Organization finds itself both under intense pressure to reform and holding out hope that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will reverse a decision by Washington to leave the health agency. 

With its annual meeting underway this week, WHO has been sharply criticized for not taking a stronger and more vocal role in handling the pandemic. For example, in private internal meetings in the early days of the virus, top scientists described some countries' approaches as “an unfortunate laboratory to study the virus” and a “macabre” opportunity to see what worked, recordings obtained by The Associated Press show. Yet in public, the U.N. health agency lauded governments for their responses.

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WNU Editor: I posted a similar story a few months ago on how different the WHO message was to the rest of the world, and what they were saying in private. They were concerned that if they were forceful in their demands to have access in China, Beijing would have just "shut them out". Unfortunately. China did (and still is) shutting out their experts from visiting the epicenter of the disease in Wuhan.

Update: The establishment of a WHO-led inquiry on how they conducted themselves in responding to the pandemic has already been condemned by the U.S. for its lack of transparency .... U.S. denounces terms for WHO-led inquiry into COVID origins (Reuters). Unfortunately this U.S. reaction is all moot. Joe Biden has already made the commitment to rejoin the WHO and re-establish U.S. funding. Whatever leverage the U.S. may have had for the WHO to reform itself is now gone.