WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency

Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by reaperducer on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:16PM (#22195052)

WHO spent the majority of the press briefing in very eerie and artificial sounding praise of China.

I wonder if they don't want to piss off China and make it say, "Fine, we're not going to cooperate with you. We'll handle it ourselves."

From what I've read, China, and especially the Chinese government, doesn't seem to respond well to the sort of light criticism that people and governments in the west would blow off.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by fasthandle on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:35PM (#22195252)

This was my interpretation also. From non-reporting through December to rapid change at the end of December to lockdown of any social venue from museums to restaurants throughout the country since Jan 25th, WHO are giving support to the policy awareness change.

Source: Live in China.

Watching the group in Imperial College closely as they've been giving closest analysis so far.

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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by AnimalMuppet on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:30PM (#22195209)

True, China doesn't respond well to criticism. I don't often see them taking clearly stupid actions in response, though.

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