Cotton drags WHO for being 'more concerned' about protecting 'feelings' of Chinese gov. than public health
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in a Saturday tweet that the World Health Organization (WHO) is more concerned about protecting the Chinese government's "feelings" than public health.
The tweet came after WHO confirmed it skipped the Greek letters "nu" and "xi" in naming its new COVID-19 variant, which it dubbed the "omicron" variant, though it is unclear if Cotton's tweet was in reference to the organization's variant name choice.
"The WHO is a joke," Cotton said. "They're more concerned about the feelings of the Chinese Communist Party than they are about public health. President Biden should never have resumed funding to this corrupt puppet of the CCP without reform."
In another Saturday tweet, the Arkansas Republican said Chinese President Xi Jinping "is defensive about being linked to the virus that the Chinese Communist Party unleashed on the world."
A WHO spokesperson told Fox News in a Saturday statement that it skipped the Greek letters "nu" and "xi" because "'nu' is too easily confounded with ‘new,’ and ‘xi' was not used because it is a common last name."
"WHO best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding ‘causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups,'" the spokesperson said.
WHO recommends using Greek letters to make the virus naming process easier, according to its website. Variants being monitored include alpha (B.1.1.7 and Q lineages), beta (B.1.351 and descendent lineages), gamma (P.1 and descendent lineages), epsilon (B.1.427 and B.1.429), eta (B.1.525... (Read more)
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