Behaviour of WHO and Covid-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) came into existence in 1948 under the aegis of the United Nations to look after the health affairs across the world. At present, it has 194 member states having its offices in 150 countries with 7000 staff. According to the WHO Situational Report-111 published on May 10, 2020, since the emergence of Covid-19, it has spread to 215 countries, claimed 2,74,361lives and 39,17,366 are confirmed cases. In India there are 62,939 confirmed cases and 2109 are deaths.

There is cluster transmission of the virus in India but a positive sign is that there is no community transmission yet. The present situation in the world is not natural but artificial. The threat of coronavirus is presented like never before; its new virus, no medicine, only social distancing is the cure. There were many viruses emerged in a different part of the world in recent past such as SARS, H1N1, Ebola, Swine influenza viruses etc. but no state had gone for lockdown as a cure to the virus.

India had experienced pandemic like Plague when there was very little medical facility available though it was controlled without lockdown measure. Why this time the WHO is so uncertain about the nature of the disease, symptoms, features, vaccine etc. It is frequently changing its guidelines and warnings.

At the very beginning, it did say the virus is found in pangolin in the fish market of Wuhan City. The market was closed but infected cases kept on increasing. Then it said it cannot spread from human to human, and then it said the infected body of the human cannot show the symptoms for 14 days, later on, it said it takes 28 days! It is generally observed that if any foreign body enters in the human body, within 3 to 5 days human body starts indicating different symptoms like body ache, fever, headache, cough etc., but 28 days are so much to know the symptoms.

The WHO expert team visited the Wuhan Tianhe Airport, Zhongnan hospital, Hubei provincial CDC, including the BSL3 laboratory in China’s Center for Disease Control on 20th and 21st January 2020. Based on their study, WHO issued a statement on 22 January saying that, “there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan but more investigation was needed to understand the full extent of transmission”. It had left room for suspicion to the world community whether there was human to human transmission or not.

The WHO has not clearly come out with the source of the virus which is from Wuhan virology lab. Moreover, whether the spread of the virus from the lab was accidental or deliberate is not made yet clear by the WHO. The WHO was so late to declare Covid-19 as world pandemic. It declared on 11 March 2020, though the first case was reported on 31 December 2019 by Wuhan city Health Commission. The commission said that there was a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan city.

It is very surprising that when it declared more danger from the silent carrier and asymptomatic patients of covid-19 infected who will spread the virus in the society. How a person can be an asymptomatic patient of the virus? If it is so, then every person is an asymptomatic patient of any disease and will show the symptoms whenever immunity power becomes low. Lockdown and quarantine period is varied from state to state due to lack of coordination between the WHO and Covid-19 affected states.

Further, WHO declared about the second wave, the third wave of the virus which will be a sudden jump in the increase of infected persons. In respect of safety measures, initially WHO recommended the use of mask only to the patients, doctors and those are taking care of the patients but not for the common public. Later on, it was recommended to the common public too.

At one point of time WHO said, “Most people infected with the Covid-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.  Older people with medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness”. If this is so then why the virus is presented so deadly? Is there any international politics involved behind the virus?

The cure (lockdown) is more deadly than the disease because it harmed many economies, loss of jobs, loss of life, reverse migration of the skilled and unskilled labour etc. The functioning of the WHO since last few months becomes so uncertain, it is confusing and seems lost the faith of public opinion. It seems that WHO has not shared the information with seriousness to the world but it was very casual while passing the information. It has not given any travel-specific recommendation at the initial stage which could have prevented the spreading of the Covid-19 across the world.

Many countries worldwide started a trial of a different drug, a vaccine to cure the Covid-19 patient and during the process it is observed in India that hydroxychloroquine is giving expected results. India has given this drug more than 50 countries including USA, Japan, Russia, some neighbouring and Middle East countries but soon after WHO declared that “the misuse of hydroxychloroquine can cause series side effect, illness and even lead to death”. 

Misuse of any drug can result in what it said but what exactly WHO wants to say about the hydroxychloroquine?  This behaviour by WHO gives space for doubt about its role since the recent past. It is the responsibility of the WHO to come out with all the details with respect to the deadly virus and regain the trust of the world.  Overall it appears that it is economic warfare. It is being fought under the name of Covid-19. 

….. to be continued (part 2).

(The author can be contacted at mundejnu@gmail.com)

The World Health Organization (WHO) came into existence in 1948 under the aegis of the United Nations to look after the health affairs across the world. At present, it has 194 member states having its offices in 150 countries with 7000 staff. According to the WHO Situational Report-111 published on May 10, 2020, since the emergence of Covid-19, it has spread to 215 countries, claimed 2,74,361lives and 39,17,366 are confirmed cases. In India there are 62,939 confirmed cases and 2109 are deaths.

There is cluster transmission of the virus in India but a positive sign is that there is no community transmission yet. The present situation in the world is not natural but artificial. The threat of coronavirus is presented like never before; its new virus, no medicine, only social distancing is the cure. There were many viruses emerged in a different part of the world in recent past such as SARS, H1N1, Ebola, Swine influenza viruses etc. but no state had gone for lockdown as a cure to the virus.

India had experienced pandemic like Plague when there was very little medical facility available though it was controlled without lockdown measure. Why this time the WHO is so uncertain about the nature of the disease, symptoms, features, vaccine etc. It is frequently changing its guidelines and warnings.

At the very beginning, it did say the virus is found in pangolin in the fish market of Wuhan City. The market was closed but infected cases kept on increasing. Then it said it cannot spread from human to human, and then it said the infected body of the human cannot show the symptoms for 14 days, later on, it said it takes 28 days! It is generally observed that if any foreign body enters in the human body, within 3 to 5 days human body starts indicating different symptoms like body ache, fever, headache, cough etc., but 28 days are so much to know the symptoms.

The WHO expert team visited the Wuhan Tianhe Airport, Zhongnan hospital, Hubei provincial CDC, including the BSL3 laboratory in China’s Center for Disease Control on 20th and 21st January 2020. Based on their study, WHO issued a statement on 22 January saying that, “there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan but more investigation was needed to understand the full extent of transmission”. It had left room for suspicion to the world community whether there was human to human transmission or not.

The WHO has not clearly come out with the source of the virus which is from Wuhan virology lab. Moreover, whether the spread of the virus from the lab was accidental or deliberate is not made yet clear by the WHO. The WHO was so late to declare Covid-19 as world pandemic. It declared on 11 March 2020, though the first case was reported on 31 December 2019 by Wuhan city Health Commission. The commission said that there was a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan city.

It is very surprising that when it declared more danger from the silent carrier and asymptomatic patients of covid-19 infected who will spread the virus in the society. How a person can be an asymptomatic patient of the virus? If it is so, then every person is an asymptomatic patient of any disease and will show the symptoms whenever immunity power becomes low. Lockdown and quarantine period is varied from state to state due to lack of coordination between the WHO and Covid-19 affected states.

Further, WHO declared about the second wave, the third wave of the virus which will be a sudden jump in the increase of infected persons. In respect of safety measures, initially WHO recommended the use of mask only to the patients, doctors and those are taking care of the patients but not for the common public. Later on, it was recommended to the common public too.

At one point of time WHO said, “Most people infected with the Covid-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.  Older people with medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness”. If this is so then why the virus is presented so deadly? Is there any international politics involved behind the virus?

The cure (lockdown) is more deadly than the disease because it harmed many economies, loss of jobs, loss of life, reverse migration of the skilled and unskilled labour etc. The functioning of the WHO since last few months becomes so uncertain, it is confusing and seems lost the faith of public opinion. It seems that WHO has not shared the information with seriousness to the world but it was very casual while passing the information. It has not given any travel-specific recommendation at the initial stage which could have prevented the spreading of the Covid-19 across the world.

Many countries worldwide started a trial of a different drug, a vaccine to cure the Covid-19 patient and during the process it is observed in India that hydroxychloroquine is giving expected results. India has given this drug more than 50 countries including USA, Japan, Russia, some neighbouring and Middle East countries but soon after WHO declared that “the misuse of hydroxychloroquine can cause series side effect, illness and even lead to death”. 

Misuse of any drug can result in what it said but what exactly WHO wants to say about the hydroxychloroquine?  This behaviour by WHO gives space for doubt about its role since the recent past. It is the responsibility of the WHO to come out with all the details with respect to the deadly virus and regain the trust of the world.  Overall it appears that it is economic warfare. It is being fought under the name of Covid-19. 

….. to be continued (part 2).

(The author can be contacted at mundejnu@gmail.com)