China’s Influence Over the WHO Endangers Global Health

When it should have been protecting public health worldwide, the WHO was protecting the Chinese Communist Party.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) speaks at a press conference regarding the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the UN Office in Geneva, Palais des Nations. UN Photo / Elma Okic. (photo: UN Geneva)

The rapid spread of Covid-19 from Wuhan, China beginning in 2019 will be something studied by historians, infectious disease experts, public health managers and graduate students for decades to come.