ROME – An author of a withdrawn World Health Organization report into Italy's coronavirus response warned his bosses in May that people could die and the U.N.
agency could suffer “catastrophic” reputational damage if it allowed political concerns to suppress the document, according to emails seen by The Associated Press.The comprehensive report examined how the Italian government and health system reacted after the country became the epicenter of the European outbreak in late February — with real-time data and case studies of what worked and what didn’t aimed at helping other countries prepare as the virus spread.The agency took it down a day after it was posted on its website, prompting the official who coordinated the work to appeal.