{"id":15802,"date":"2020-04-14T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15802"},"modified":"2020-04-14T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:22:37","slug":"coronavirus-shows-the-world-health-organization-in-dire-need-of-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/04\/14\/coronavirus-shows-the-world-health-organization-in-dire-need-of-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Shows the World Health Organization in Dire Need of Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43192\" title=\"The White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/whitehouse-logo-200x136.jpg\" alt=\"The White House\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\"><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cPurposely or not, by praising China\u2019s response to a virus the WHO first denied and then lied about, this longtime paragon of public health is fueling a \u2018China versus the world\u2019 showdown,\u201d Adam Goodman writes in Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>By enabling the Chinese government\u2019s misconduct, \u201cthe WHO has become the new poster child for international organizations so bloated with bureaucracy and punctuated by politics they\u2019ve turned into something well beyond what they were intended to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-478008\" title=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing-480x240.jpg\" alt=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=bf6263e725&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave high praise to President Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic in his state, saying the president remains \u2018amazingly accessible\u2019 and has \u2018delivered\u2019 where it counts.\u201d Governor Cuomo said that \u201cif you do the right thing by New York, I\u2019ll say it,\u201d Jessica Chasmar reports for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=bb5d5dc586&amp;e=6b36942091\" >The Washington Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA World Health Organization official said Monday that she suspected human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus \u2018right from the start,\u2019 beginning on December 31st, 2019. But WHO officials echoed Chinese authorities and denied any suggestion of human-to-human transmission for weeks,\u201d Peter Hasson writes for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=dba16d1775&amp;e=6b36942091\" >The Daily Caller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Donald Trump recently announced that Colorado would be receiving an additional 100 ventilators from FEMA\u2019s national stockpile to combat COVID-19. This should be a moment of celebration for Coloradans suffering from COVID-19 and their families,\u201d Jeff Hunt writes in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=2ebd078100&amp;e=6b36942091\" >The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211; \u201cPurposely or not, by praising China\u2019s response to a virus the WHO first denied and then lied about, this longtime paragon of public health is fueling a \u2018China versus the world\u2019 showdown,\u201d Adam Goodman writes in Fox News. By enabling the Chinese government\u2019s misconduct, \u201cthe WHO has become the new poster child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[12926,566,7061,12675,12712,529,1645,12828,3338,3723,1631],"class_list":["post-15802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-china","tag-colorado","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-fema","tag-new-york","tag-ventilators","tag-washington-d-c","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15803,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15802\/revisions\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}