A report that shames the WHO … revealed the truth about Corona in Italy

The author of a withdrawn World Health Organization report on Italy’s response to the Coronavirus warned his superiors in May that people could die and the UN agency could suffer “catastrophic” damage to its reputation. if he allowed political concerns to obscure the document.

The full report examined how the Italian government and healthcare system had to respond after the country became the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe in late February, in light of real-time data and case studies of what It worked and what it did not aim to help other countries prepare for the spread of the virus.

The agency withdrew the report a day after it was posted on its website, prompting the official who coordinated the work to appeal directly to the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on May 28 and to warn that the The report’s disappearance undermines the credibility of the World Health Organization.

He warned that any new attempts at censorship would undermine the agency’s independence and its relations with the donor countries that funded the research.

Francesco Zambone, WHO’s senior field coordinator for Italy and its regions during the epidemic, wrote that dealing with the report could cause “a major scandal, at a delicate time for the United Nations health agency with the upcoming investigation of “Covid 19”.

The report, written by Zampon and a team of WHO public health experts and advisers, was released on May 13 after obtaining the necessary approvals within the United Nations system, according to internal WHO documents, which were reviewed. By The Associated Press.

Concerns about the missing report have risen in recent weeks, sparking criticism of WHO’s leadership in the global response to the pandemic, prompting the agency to agree to an independent investigation of its performance.