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Date
2021-05-23 03:16
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes
Topics
WHO and international investigation

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Got this from Dominic. I told him we writing a letter but that we didn't want the WHO team to be involved: "It continues to annoy me when people say that WHO/OIE/FAO aren't 'independent' but letter writers (15/18 of which are from the US) are 'independent'. Sure WHO/OIE/FAO (and add in the UN/UNICEF etc) have their big problems, but what other international groups are there? We in the WHO group may write a piece later about the political/moral/racist/ill-informed/un-evidenced conspiratorial attitudes that surrounded trying to do this work."

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  1. 2021-05-23 03:16 Edward C. Holmes
    Got this from Dominic. I told him we writing a letter but that we didn't want the WHO team to be involved: "It continues to annoy me when people say that WHO/OIE/FAO aren't 'independent' but letter writers (15/18 of which are from the US) are 'independent'. Sure WHO/OIE/FAO (and add in the UN/UNICEF etc) have their big problems, but what other international groups are there? We in the WHO group may write a piece later about the political/moral/racist/ill-informed/un-evidenced conspiratorial attitudes that surrounded trying to do this work."

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