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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, we understand you. If you only followed the news....

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Anyways, [b]I will continue to look to experts who are world leaders in pandemic management[/b] - not to DCUM posters who think they know more than any expert out there. The WHO pandemic team spent weeks in China learning everything they could. The experts are not saying to panic. In fact, they are saying the opposite. They are saying go about your life but use normal precautions like handwashing to avoid getting sick. Most people outside of DCUM are still doing that. Flights are full, people are living their lives outside of DCUM. The anxiety on here is insane.[/quote]

[b]WHO Has Admitted an Error in Its Assessment of Wuhan Coronavirus Risk[/b]

The Geneva-based UN agency said in a situation report late Sunday that the risk was "very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level."

[b]In a footnote, the WHO explained that it had stated "incorrectly" in its previous reports on Thursday, Friday and Saturday that the global risk was "moderate".[/b]

The correction of the global risk assessment does not mean that an international health emergency has been declared.

The WHO on Thursday stopped short of declaring the novel coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern - a rare designation used only for the worst outbreaks that would trigger more concerted global action.

The virus, which was first identified in the city of Wuhan in China on December 31, has since infected more than 2,700 people worldwide, including a few cases identified in over a dozen other countries.[b]

A 'sizeable' mistake[/b]

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is visiting China this week to discuss ways of containing the outbreak, came under intense questioning from reporters on Thursday over his decision not to declare the emergency.

Some reporters asked whether the decision was politicised.

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