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WHO’s Covid-19 Record

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A World Health Organization official is claiming that WHO and Big Tech worked together during the Covid-19 pandemic to fight “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

IN FACT, WHO repeatedly spread deadly falsehoods during the pandemic, and Big Tech amplified them while censoring genuine facts. Here are some prime examples:

  • On March 3, 2020, the Director-General of WHO stated that “Covid-19 spreads less efficiently than flu,” even though 12 studies had already found that C-19 spreads far more efficiently than the flu.
  • On March 3, 2020, WHO’s Director-General claimed that “about 3.4% of reported Covid-19 cases have died.” Media outlets widely reported this figure and lambasted President Trump for saying that the real figure is “way under 1%.” In August 2020, Cambridge University Press published a paper that documented how WHO’s “overestimation” of the death rate led to “social distancing” and “lockdowns,” which caused a multitude of deaths. In January 2021, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization published a study that estimated the fatality rate for C-19 to be 0.23%—or about 1/15th of its original estimate and consistent with Trump’s statement.
  • On March 28, 2020, WHO published a “fact check” declaring that “Covid-19 is NOT airborne” and “is mainly transmitted through droplets” that “are too heavy to hang in the air.” In November 2020, the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases published a statement signed by 239 scientists documenting “more than enough supporting evidence” that C-19 is spreading via aerosols. On April 30, 2021, WHO quietly changed its webpage on C-19 transmission to admit that the disease spreads via “aerosols.” Instead of coming clean about this deadly mistake, WHO and the CDC covered it up, costing countless lives.
  • On April 24, 2020, WHO published a scientific brief stating, “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection” which could “enable” them to “travel or to return to work.” WHO issued a clarification later that day but continued to downplay the potency and durability of naturally acquired immunity, which ultimately ended the pandemic.
  • Despite WHO’s record of spreading misinformation, Google/YouTube adopted a policy in May 2020 of censoring people who post content “that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities’ medical information about Covid-19.”
  • In January 2022, YouTube censored a video from Just Facts about the health risks of N95 masks, even though the video rigorously documents every fact with data from peer-reviewed scientific journals and OSHA.
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