WHO trashed for sharing Chinese study claiming humans can’t spread coronavirus during outbreak’s onset

Published March 19, 2020 10:52am ET



A tweet from January has many questioning why the World Health Organization blindly shared what may have been Chinese propaganda about the coronavirus.

The COVID-19 virus outbreak is believed to have started in Wuhan, China, in December. In mid-January, the WHO tweeted a study that was made public by the Chinese Communist Party, claiming that humans could not spread the coronavirus to one another.

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