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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says the organization “has hidden nothing from the United States since day one.” He expressed great outrage commenting on critical statements that the organization had withheld information at the start of the epidemic.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Stock Photography.
“We have warned from day one that this is a demon that everyone has to fight,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, clearly concerned at Monday’s press conference.
The virus that emerged late last year in Wuhan City, China, so far has meant that 2.4 million people have tested positive worldwide and that more than 165,000 have died, according to the AFP news agency.
The United States has the highest number of deaths in the world, with more than 40,000 deaths. President Donald Trump has been criticized for how the spread of the infection in the United States has been managed.
The United States has been the WHO’s largest donor, but recently Trump decided that support would be frozen. It motivated the decision that the WHO was a poor organization that had also obscured information about the spread of the virus.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted during the press conference that WHO has had several Americans working at WHO headquarters for a long time, including several people from CDC in the United States.
– Having CDC staff here means that we haven’t hidden anything from the United States from day one. These are Americans who work for us. It is completely natural. WHO is open. We don’t hide anything.
