Covid-19: the World Health Organization caught between the United States and China

Will history remember that the genetic sequence of an emerging virus has never been shared so quickly with researchers around the world - as China likes to point out? Or, more likely, that the country has caused the world to fall dangerously behind the scenes by concealing the existence and intensity of its human-to-human transmission with the complicity of the World Health Organization (WHO)?

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The question has fueled the confrontation between Beijing and Washington since the coronavirus detected at the end of December in the city of Wuhan submerged the planet. Donald Trump calls for an investigation into the conditions under which the international organization chose to take on board, on January 14, the reassuring statements of China when the latter refused to let its experts in. "The WHO made a serious mistake in not understanding that it is impossible to trust this country, neither open nor free, and which was caught red-handed in 2003

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