In between blaming China and offering some bizarre and lethal health advice, Trump has long trumpeted the idea that the WHO failed in its initial response to the outbreak. However, if we follow the timeline of the public statements made by the organization, it really was there at location zero, Wuhan in Hubei Province, China.
When a spike in pneumonia cases happened on Dec. 31, 2019, the next day the WHO set up an Incident Management Support Team (IMST). Over the following weeks, the WHO activated various public information campaigns on social media and began advising countries on how to detect, test, and manage a potential outbreak.
