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The director of Public Health and Environment of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Spanish María Neira, highlighted this Friday the “irony” that US President Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19 and he trusted that this circumstance will make him empathize more with the victims and consequences of the pandemic.
Neira responded this way in a debate organized by the New Economy Forum entity in Madrid when asked if he thinks he can change Trump’s approach to the pandemic after he and his wife have been infected with coronavirus.
He specified that he is not happy that Trump has been infected, “but it seems a little ironic that it was so”, while wishing him a speedy recovery.
“Probably, on a more human and personal level, the part of empathy for the patients or for how the process is followed, will surely affect them, especially if their environment has also been infected “He pointed out, also alluding to the fact that the first lady, Melania Trump, was also confirmed with Covid-19.
On the political level, Neira assured that the Trump’s management of the pandemic has had “many twists and turns and some knock-offs,” such as the announcement of the withdrawal of the United States from the WHO, something “tremendously sad”, stressed the international expert.
A decision, according to Neira, that the WHO does not want to contemplate, so he hoped that it is not like that and that “there is still a choice” for the United States to remain one of the 193 countries that are part of that world organization. “And we can continue to count on them as we are counting now,” he argued.
He insisted that the US has a very important role to play in the global architecture of public health that the WHO wants to implement.
