Doc Says Trump Should Withdraw U.S. Support From The W.H.O. On Day 1 (VIDEO)
WHO pandemic recommendations were "pulled out of their asses" says Dr. Vinay Prasad.
Dr. Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist, medical researcher, and professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. He also posts videos discussing medical topics on YouTube and has garnered almost 200K followers.
Dr. Prasad has some thoughts on the World Health Organization’s actions during the pandemic. Spoiler alert: He’s not a fan.
Just before Christmas, Reuters reported that the incoming Trump administration is planning to immediately withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. Dr. Prasad agrees that this is the correct course of action and in the above video he gives his reason why.
The World Health Organization repeatedly failed during the pandemic. While it’s understandable that recommendations were made before evidence was available, they refused to conduct studies to generate that evidence as the pandemic dragged on.
Not only that, but many of the numerous recommendations made by the WHO were based largely on opinion, not science, and those decisions were political.
Dr. Prasad enumerates the most egregious failures of the WHO in his video.
1. Lockdowns.
Who can forget the “physical distancing” measures that made everyone stay 6 feet apart in grocery stores, shut down churches but left liquor stores open, and restricted travel and visits to family during holidays?
They were heavy-handed negative interventions that inhibited freedom and were largely ineffective in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Dr. Prasad writes:
The World Health organization pushed an unprecedented and draconian restriction— that democratic governments can use the police estate to restrict movement. To date, no persuasive evidence has shown this led to benefits. There is in fact evidence to suggest it cause collateral damage, particularly in poor nations, and did little to slow the pandemic spread. (Emphasis added)…
…The WHO’s failure was not saying lockdowns are permissable. It is that the organization has done nothing substantive to evaluate the policy.
2. Masking kids.
While the WHO didn’t go as far as Fascist Fearf Fürher Fauci by recommending masking toddlers, the evidence for masking children between 6-11 was not based on a single study.
3. Test, Trace, and Isolate.
The nose-rape sticks, tracking contacts, and isolating may not have done a damned thing. We’ll never know because, as Dr. Prasad points out, “After 5 years, we have no data that this strategy improved outcomes for a virus like covid. Perhaps it would work for a virus with short incubation period and no asymptomatic disease. HO has no idea because again, they ran no studies.”
We pay these people to sit on their cans and make dumb decisions that make life worse for everyone based on their opinions. We already have an organization like that — we call it Congress.
And finally…
4. The Safe and Effective™ Vaccines.
The WHO repeatedly said that the vaccines would stop the spread of COVID. They did no such thing.
Dr. Prasad states it clearly:
If WHO wanted, it could have run built in asymptomatic testing of family members to the initial randomized control trials of the vaccines. It could have advocated for this. This would have tested if it snowed or halted transmission. WHO could have run longer term studies. They did no such thing.
They had one job and they failed to do it.
Dr. Prasad sums up:
Public Health has a duty to generate evidence to guide its policies. The WHO failed that duty. The US must withdraw. We can’t pay for more opinions that aren’t evidence based. We already pay for the CDC.
You can read Dr. Prasad’s article here.
