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#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data

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Is the WHO Really Trying to Fix the WHO Pandemic?

There is nowhere that they can actually do that. They do that indirectly by publishing files in the open and Johns Hopkins University pull once, like, one time in every morning to get the data. But as a weak creator, common standard, but they can still publish the data in all kinds of formats. And how lucky do you think it is? So I guess part of the argument here is that like COVID was unprecedented that in the WHO's existence or something,. maybe. It took like several weeks to get the form right. During those several weeks, the epidemic just kept growing.

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