Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus By Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.The head of the World Health Organization today gave an impassioned but indirect rejoinder to recent comments from U.S.
President Donald Trump criticizing WHO’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and suggesting he would try to cut its U.S. funding.“Please quarantine politicizing COVID,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in response to a question from ScienceInsider about Trump’s comments. “We will have many body bags in front of us if we don’t behave.”Tedros also indirectly addressed Trump’s criticisms of China’s early handling of the pandemic and claims that WHO is too accommodating to the Chinese government. “The United States and China