1/ "The WHO has a budget around the size of a large U.S. hospital. It's about one quarter of the budget of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," says Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University
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2/ and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, which is an independent agency that works with WHO.’ -- NPR.
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3/ The WHO is the only organisation in the world with the expertise to reliably direct pandemics of this kind, and has a proven track record of doing so since its inception in 1948 (smallpox, for one).
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5/ They stand in a multi-partisan, international role wherein they direct and advise with no real means of power. The WHO has undoubtedly, like any organization, made mistakes in its history - but not in the ways in which they are smeared to have done.
Apr 16, 2020 · 7:19 PM UTC
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6/ The conspiracy theories are baseless in my opinion, and it is typical of the president that he engages in them. Not everything ‘established’ is some nefarious plot by a wicked “establishment.”
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7/ These whispers can pose as much a danger to our democracy as is the propaganda and conspiratorial falsehoods screamed by the far right.
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8/ I have a well-established record of healthy skepticism about Big Pharma, but I don’t believe the cynicism expressed by the extreme WHO critics is justified.
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