{"id":1143369,"date":"2021-12-22T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143369"},"modified":"2021-12-22T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:04:45","slug":"china-pandemic-wont-end-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-pandemic-wont-end-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Pandemic Won\u2019t End in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-pandemic-wont-end-in-2022%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1243048.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Tuesday threw cold water on World Health Organization (W.H.O.) director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u2019 hope that \u201c2022 must be the year we end the pandemic.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese propaganda paper emailed Tedros\u2019 office to ask for specific details of W.H.O.\u2019s plan to end the pandemic and reported no details were forthcoming.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Communist China risibly claims to have ended the pandemic within its borders over a year ago \u2013 all of its coronavirus outbreaks since then were supposedly caused by visiting foreigners, including the one that currently has 13 million people <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/chinese-city-sharply-restricts-travel-to-fight-covid-outbreak\/\"><span>under lockdown<\/span><\/a><span> in the city of Xi\u2019an.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>quoted \u201cChinese observers\u201d who said the pandemic will only end if W.H.O. can \u201cplay a leading role in ending vaccine inequity and developing more effective vaccines, truly unite member states and global scientists, and abandon politicization.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By \u201cpoliticization,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><span> meant <\/span><span>asking questions<\/span><span> about where the coronavirus came from.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The Chinese paper lashed out at Tedros for daring to demand more \u201cdata and information related to the origin\u201d of the pandemic, accusing him of working as a puppet for the United States by \u201craising the issue of the origin and attacking China\u201d to help American officials \u201cshift the blame of their failures in Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] response to China.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEven if the W.H.O. declared the end of the pandemic next year, it\u2019s more about ending it politically rather than biologically,\u201d an anonymous immunologist in Beijing said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15347747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/01\/wi\/ap\/05\/virus-outbreak-monday-march-2020-file-photo-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-director-of-healt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15347747 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/virus-outbreak-monday-march-2020-file-photo-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-director-of-healt-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this Monday, March 9, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization speaks during a news conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi\/Keystone via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>argued the fast-spreading, and apparently vaccine-resistant, omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus proves better vaccines must be developed and spread \u201cequitably\u201d around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An inhaled vaccine being developed by Chinese academics and military scientists was touted as a superior medicine that \u201ccould both prevent infection and transmission.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WHO<\/a> chief warn over fast spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Omicron?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Omicron<\/a> and states world must end the pandemic in 2022, Chinese experts say precondition for an end lies in if WHO can play leading role in ending vaccine inequity, unite member states and abandon politicization. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SMX0TAadIF\">https:\/\/t.co\/SMX0TAadIF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Times (@globaltimesnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1473310539891625985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Bringing this up in the middle of a furious rant against foreigners who ask tough questions about China\u2019s role in releasing and spreading the coronavirus sounds like Beijing\u2019s latest attempt to cajole the world into forgetting about those unsafe Chinese virology laboratories and their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/02\/19\/pressure-mounts-china-give-w-h-o-coronavirus-raw-data-wuhan\/\"><span>mysteriously disappearing data files<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cObsessing over the origins of SARS-CoV-2 when the world is facing the rapid spread of the disease is actually politicizing the issue of the origins of SARS-CoV-2,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>W.H.O. coronavirus expert Maria van Kerkhove was cautiously optimistic about effectively ending the pandemic next year in a December 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-021-01616-y\">article<\/a> for <\/span><i><span>Nature Medicine<\/span><\/i><i><span>. <\/span><\/i><span>She made some of the same points as Tedros, especially in her emphasis on resolving \u201cinequitable access to vaccines, therapeutic agents, and diagnostics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Van Kerkhove lamented the \u201cdivision and politicization\u201d in various government responses to the pandemic, which is the sort of point China likes to seize upon to argue its authoritarian model is superior for addressing calamities like Chinese coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After cautioning that vaccination may not be sufficient to control the coronavirus if it keeps spreading through large populations and mutating into vaccine-resistant strains, Van Kerkhove envisioned that growing \u201cpopulation level immunity\u201d can substantially reduce \u201csevere disease and death,\u201d easing the strain placed upon health care systems by the pandemic and perhaps ending the state of health emergency in much of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Tuesday threw cold water on World Health Organization (W.H.O.) director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u2019 hope that \u201c2022 must be the year we end the pandemic.\u201d 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