2020/10/18
The WHO in 2019 published guidance that Lock-downs were undesirable options for dealing with a pandemic, along with Test and Trace.
In 2020 The WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reversed that advice following China's actions in Wuhan, but Dr David Nabarro (Britain's envoy to the WHO) reiterated the original guidance (Oct 2020) emphasizing that the effect of locking down is disproportionately felt by the poor and needy.
He was promptly contradicted by Tedros the following day. The AIER has the low down.
