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Per https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/17/trumps-fa..., on the same day, the WHO said this:

> Van Kerkhove added, however, that human-to-human transmission would not be surprising given the WHO’s experience with SARS, MERS and other respiratory pathogens.

> Van Kerkhove’s message was not lost on reporters. The Telegraph in Britain headlined its article on the news conference: “WHO refuses to rule out human-to-human spread in China’s mystery coronavirus outbreak.”

Within a week (Jan 20) they'd confirmed the human-to-human transmission, too.



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