“What we need is early warning and work together, share information, transparency,” says Prof. “China’s COVID Secrets” identifies numerous missed opportunities at the local and national level to suppress the outbreak, and reveals lessons for the world as the coronavirus pandemic continues and the possibility of the next infectious disease pandemic looms. Was it enough every single day? No, but I could say that for every country that we dealt with, in every outbreak that we have dealt with.” “We also have very direct conversations with countries privately … we would go back and we would ask for more information and we would receive information every day.
“We have public discussion about the information that we have,” she said. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead, why the agency didn’t take a tougher public line with China. Praised China's Early COVID Response in Public. “Instead, they basically deferred to China.” “Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly,” AP reporter Dake Kang says in the film. The recordings reveal that as WHO officials praised China publicly, they privately were expressing concern about the government’s lack of transparency and worried that the WHO would be accused of failing to warn the world.
With leaked recordings obtained by the Associated Press and shared with FRONTLINE and the BBC, "China’s COVID Secrets" also goes inside the WHO’s early handling of the outbreak. “Well, this didn’t really resonate with me because I’d heard that many, many people had been infected … I don’t think he was duplicitous I think he was just wrong.” Ian Lipkin, a virologist at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University, says the head of China’s CDC told him personally that the virus was not highly transmissible as the end of 2019 approached: “He’d identified the virus, it was a new coronavirus and it was not highly transmissible,” Lipkin says, publicly recounting the details of their conversation for the first time.
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