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China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. Not at all. And-- we're-- we have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's—going to be just fine.
Claim: WHO was slow to respond"They called it wrong. They really – they missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known, and they should have known. And they probably did know,"Trump said in the April 7 media briefing at the White House.
According to
WHO's own timeline of published statements, China first reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province, on Dec. 31, 2019. A day later, WHO said it "set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak."
Over the following days and weeks, WHO documents show, the organization activated various public information campaigns on social media and starting giving technical guidance to counties on how to detect, test and manage for potential cases.
It's always fun to test people's short term memory by going back and reading what was actually said, not what Trump claims was said.
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