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World Health Organization: We Blew It. Risk Of Coronavirus Risk Actually ‘Very High’

Ashe Schow
World Health Organization: We Blew It. Risk Of Coronavirus Risk Actually ‘Very High’
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted it made an error last week when it classified the global risk of China’s new coronavirus — which can lead to SARS — as “moderate.” The organization on Monday released a new report late Sunday that stated the risk was actually “very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level.”

The Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Tuesday that a footnote in the WHO report stated the group had “incorrectly” stated the global risk was merely “moderate.”

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