Pompeo warns U.S. may never restore WHO funding https://t.co/QAjOBtCHC3 pic.twitter.com/xsqFYgz0WR
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 23, 2020
Take it from a guy who has been there – this is total nonsense.
The US already doesn't fund via WHO for things it could fund in other ways. We fund WHO for the things only WHO can do.
So if US cuts off WHO, we're defunding activities that can't be transferred to others. https://t.co/0coZmUsOQM
— Jeremy TEST/TRACE/ISOLATE Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) April 23, 2020
U.S. officials could not confirm who will lead the review of @WHO that President Trump announced along with the pause on funding last week, nor could they say what conditions WHO will have to meet in order to see its funding resumed. https://t.co/bSwWI1CpME
— Michael Igoe (@AlterIgoe) April 23, 2020
Pompeo is either willfully lying or willfully ignorant. https://t.co/0bFIiaeNVO
— Jeremy TEST/TRACE/ISOLATE Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) April 23, 2020
This is a very polite way of saying that US government officials embedded in WHO knew everything that WHO knew at the same time WHO knew it.
As reported here there were more than a dozen US CDC officials embedded in WHO in Jan and Febhttps://t.co/8eNlUrJGoW— Julian Borger (@julianborger) April 22, 2020
NEW: More than a dozen U.S. personnel at the WHO, many from the CDC, transmitted real-time information about Covid-19's discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration. Report by @KarenDeyoung1 @bylenasun @emilyrauhala, building on @Milbank scoop https://t.co/xTzYxzEkSB
— Ellen Nakashima (@nakashimae) April 19, 2020
Here's Dr. Birx on ABC echoing Trump's attacks on the WHO and saying "it wasn't until the beginning of March that we could all fully see how contagious this virus was." (This is false — the CDC was warning coronavirus could cause "severe" disruption to American life in Feb.) pic.twitter.com/pB0VYbtOSx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 19, 2020