From the alternate universe where not all staff of the World Health Organization should be immediately fired:
WHO: ‘WE HAVE NO IDEA’ ABOUT RATES OF AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE
14 January 2020
GENEVA — In an emergency press briefing by the World Health Organization, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced a “verification crisis” in tracking down sources for the long-standing medical view that airborne transmission is rare among human pathogens. Tedros announced an immediate investigation of the WHO’s processes by independent auditors, noting “a critical process failure in [the WHO’s] evidence-gathering and public health recommendations” about a wide variety of infectious illnesses, “seemingly stemming from poor citation practices and a serious misallocation of investigative resources.”
Director-General Tedros pledged to provide daily updates on the quickly evolving state of the evidence, as researchers re-evaluated core assumptions about disease transmission under a deadline, mere days after the first confirmed case of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus outside China.
The WHO’s briefing included their daily-updated probability distribution over infection fatality rates and reproductive rates from the...
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