Rodrigo Antunes / Lusa
Two years analyzing a million pages. WHO failed to combat the pandemic: there is no evidence about masks, natural immunity ignored.
O Congress of the USA of America published last Wednesday its final report about the impact of the pandemic COVID-19.
It took two years to analyze a million pages of documents, dozens of interviews, and one that has 520 pages.
Without certainty, the researchers reinforce that it is likely that the SARS-CoV-2 was born in a laboratory of Wuhan, in China. Biological characteristics of the virus and disease among researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology at that time are the basis of this conclusion.
Highlights in the report are reviews to the World Health Organization (OMS). The entity failed in combating the pandemic, according to the US Congress.
First, because the WHO appeared serving the interests of the Chinese Communist Partyby allowing the party controlled the WHO investigation on the origins of the coronavirus, reinforces .
Secondly, because the best known measures – masks and social distancing – are very questionable: “There is no conclusive evidence that face masks effectively protect Americans from COVID-19.”
The same document indicates that the WHO recommended masks and isolation based on investigations into other respiratory viruses, due to lack of knowledge about coronavirus. And warn that the guidelines may change as scientific knowledge develops.
Os prolonged confinements, it reads, “caused immeasurable damage, not only to the U.S. economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans.”
The report also accuses public health authorities of participating in a “coordinated effort to ignore natural immunity and suppress dissenting opinions”.
On the part of compliments: travel and vaccines. The document (led by podiatrist and Republican Brad Wenstrup) praises the early restrictions on travel, announced by then-president Donald Trump – it was not a moment of xenophobia, he assures; and welcomes the effort to create a vaccine in record time – which also helped with time when immune protection lowered after an infection.
Lessons takeaway from this period: there are weaknesses in the US national strategic reserves and supply chain. Therefore, the report suggests that states have their own reserves of emergency medical supplies, which can offer a faster response and be more adapted to local needs, in addition to encouraging greater national production, especially of medicines.
