The World Health Organization (WHO) is now haunted by a tweet it sent earlier this year when it cited Chinese health officials who claimed there had been no human transmissions of the novel coronavirus within the country yet. "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China," the organization had said. It also relied on information from Chinese health authorities who have been accused of obscuring facts and figures during the course of the outbreak. The New York Times' China correspondent, Amy Quin, said Tuesday on Twitter that the country had begun expelling American journalists. "The pandemic originated in Wuhan & was initially covered up by Chinese authorities.

Source: Fox News March 19, 2020 01:52 UTC