An advisor to Donald Trump sowed doubt by suggesting that the term Covid-19 came from the fact that there had already been eighteen such epidemics before. She also suggested that WHO was fully aware of the situation.
This Wednesday, Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Donald Trump, caused a sensation in an interview for the American news channel Fox News. “We deserve to know. Scientists and doctors say there could be new waves later, that it could come back in the fall in a more limited form,” said the counselor in a solemn tone, when asked about the health crisis currently plaguing the world. “It is Covid-19, not Covid-1, and you might think that the people (editor’s note: WHO) responsible for the facts and figures were ready to fight it,” she added. Therefore, the counselor suggests that the 19 refers to the number of epidemics of this type in the past, and not to the date of appearance of this new coronavirus, in 2019. Which is obviously not the case …
The protege of Donald Trump, who has been with him since his campaign in 2016, did not stop there and took the opportunity to question the transparency of the World Health Organization (WHO). It thus justified the decision of the American president to suspend Washington’s contribution to the WHO budget. Donald Trump had also accused the WHO of mismanagement and concealment of information in this crisis. An opinion that Kellyanne Conway also seems to share. “The minimum return on investment would have been that WHO was honest about the origins of the virus in Wuhan, about its transmission between humans,” she said. She then said that WHO had lied or not been transparent on these issues while the United States is currently the country with the most pandemic-related deaths.
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