Opinion: The problem isn’t a lack of information. It’s Trump.
at the WHO’s Geneva headquarters as the virus spread and transmitted information in real time to the Trump administration. The latest revelations add to a picture of U.S. officials working collaboratively with the WHO — until Trump, trying to blunt criticism of his own handling of the virus, decided to make the WHO a scapegoat. Last week, he said he’dfor the WHO and accused the international body of being a “tool” of communist China.
It’s certainly fair to criticize the WHO for its effusive public praise of China’s response to the outbreak, or to argue that the WHO should have supported travel restrictions or declared a pandemic sooner. And it’s obvious that the information China shared with the world was woefully inadequate. But the large volume of contacts, meetings and collaboration between U.S.
Congressional Republicans are attempting to help Trump frame the WHO. Sen. Todd C. Young , chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multilateral Institutions,to appear at a hearing even as the WHO, stripped of U.S. funding, tries to mitigate the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa and other impoverished places.
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