As Chris pointed out, he isn’t a reporter, he is a powerful ex Obama Healthcare administrator (MBA not a scientist). I would guess that he (or his boss who has been pulling strings behind the scenes) didn’t like what he heard because it would facilitate going back to normal, and thus he made a few calls to people he knows well or even helped get appointed, and had them lower the boom on the overly honest epidemiologist who didn’t understand that this is about politics, and that she should get with the playbook). BO et al were very tight with the WHO.
You’re right though. At very best the WHO doesn’t know what it’s doing with different messages from day to day.
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