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Journal Article
COVID-19, China, the World Health Organization, and the Limits of International Health Diplomacy
2020
Overview
On May 5, 2020, the conservative newspaper the Washington Examiner lambasted China's behavior in the COVID-19 crisis, claiming that the country \"deliberately misled the world so that it could stockpile crucial supplies\" while it \"let the virus infect the rest of the world.\"1 The Examiner also claimed that China lied about the virus's capacity for human-to-human transmission. And yet, unlike other conservative media, the Examiner was relatively easy on the World Health Organization (WHO), which, it said, China had manipulated by refusing to let it see early data.Other voices have been far more critical of the WHO. For example, on April 15, the Libertarian magazine Reason asserted that the WHO \"whitewashed the Chinese government's early handling ofthe crisis\" and did this because of its \"overly deferential stance towards China, which is its second-biggest financial contributor.\"2What is the truth about the WHO's response to the coronavirus crisis in China? The most comprehensive source for the early days of the developing pandemic is the chronology posted on the WHO Web site,3 extracted in the box on page 1150. The chronology raises several questions. The new coronavirus was isolated by Chinese scientists byJanuary 7, so why did China not report this to the WHO until January 12? A high WHO official onJanuary 14 underscored the likelihood of human-to-human spread of the new \"pneumonia\" analogous to SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome).3 But why was no confirmatory evidence reported by China until January 23, just after a small WHO team was allowed to visit Wuhan for the first time and more than a week after the Chinese had installed thermometers at airports, train stations, and long-range bus stations?
Publisher
American Public Health Association
