WHO’s Covid Response
In response to the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization, WHO claims that it addressed the Covid-19 pandemic based on the “best available evidence.”
IN FACT, WHO spread at least 6 deadly falsehoods about Covid-19 that disregarded the best available evidence:
- 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,” and the media widely reported this claim, using it to lambaste 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, and infection control measures must therefore be changed to “reduce the severity of the pandemic and save lives.” On April 30, 2021, WHO quietly changed its webpage on C-19 transmission to admit that the disease spreads via “aerosols,” but instead of coming clean about the implications of this fatal mistake, WHO and the CDC covered it up, costing countless more 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.
- WHO persistently pushed for masking, even though no randomized controlled trial found that masks save lives, and an analysis of CDC mask studies published by the American Journal of Medicine in 2023 found that “the level of evidence generated was low and the conclusions were most often unsupported by the data.” Moreover, dozens of studies showed that masks cause significant harms.
- WHO incessantly promoted Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, even after gold-standard randomized controlled trials involving 72,663 people found no evidence that these injections save more lives than they take.
Despite WHO’s track record of spreading such misinformation, Google/YouTube adopted a policy of censoring people who post content “that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities’ medical information about Covid-19.”
