Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by beaunative on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:11PM
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To be fair, China already delcared state of emergency months ago, but for the WHO to declare pandemic and recognize it as a international problem, it has to be that other countries has also done that. WHO cannot predict things, and they can't declare Pandemic when what they have is mere suspicion, it has to be an actual pandemic to declare. I'm pretty sure numerous experts have warned about the pandemic thing.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by pier25 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:19PM
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Ok, the WHO has to wait until it's a pandemic to declare it a pandemic. But if it's already a pandemic how does that help?
Wouldn't it be better if the WHO actually helped prevent the pandemic in the first place?
Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
by beaunative on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:42PM
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I'm pretty sure WHO is involved early on along with the Chinese authories when they first spotted it. They are already helping.
WHO is merely declaring matter of fact about the virus's spreading. Which is kind of it's primary function, to declare things and publish reports so the governments can act on them. They can't really do much beyond that.