Morning Jolt: The WHO Director Makes an About-Face on China’s COVID Narrative

On the menu today: World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells reporters that lab accidents are common; the media obsessively discusses Donald Trump as if he were still president; the Biden administration starts telling Facebook which posts it deems disinformation; and an interview with thriller author Brad Thor — and why 2021 is the summer of Black Ice.

WHO's Tedros: Lab Accidents Are Common

If you read this newsletter, there's a good chance that, at minimum, you find the World Health Organization's credulity about China's assessments of the coronavirus outbreak early in the pandemic to be an egregiously consequential misjudgment, and that you will have a hard time trusting the WHO moving forward. In fact, that's probably the mildest and nicest way to describe how you feel about WHO.

Every now and then, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes a statement that suggests he realizes how colossally his organization messed up by trusting Beijing's assessments. The world suffered greatly from COVID-19, WHO now looks like a bunch of gullible fools who loused up their single most important ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY July 16 2021 WITH JIM GERAGHTY July 16 2021 The WHO Director Makes an About-Face on China's COVID Narrative On the menu today: World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells reporters that lab accidents are common; the media obsessively discusses Donald Trump as if he were still president; the Biden administration starts telling Facebook which posts it deems disinformation; and an interview with thriller author Brad Thor — and why 2021 is the summer of Black Ice. WHO's Tedros: Lab Accidents Are Common If you read this newsletter, there's a good chance that, at minimum, you find the World Health Organization's credulity about China's assessments of the coronavirus outbreak early in the pandemic to be an egregiously consequential misjudgment, and that you will have a hard time trusting the WHO moving forward. In fact, that's probably the mildest and nicest way to describe how you feel about WHO. Every now and then, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes a statement that suggests he realizes how colossally his organization messed up by trusting Beijing's assessments. The world suffered greatly from COVID-19, WHO now looks like a bunch of gullible fools who loused up their single most important ...   READ MORE

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