Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump’s Decision to Halt WHO Funding: ‘This is COVID-19, Not COVID-1’
White House counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway is backing President Donald Trump while taking a swing at the World Health Organization (WHO). “Some of the scientists and doctors say that there could be other…
White House counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway is backing President Donald Trump while taking a swing at the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Some of the scientists and doctors say that there could be other strains, later on, this could come back in the fall in a limited way. This is COVID-19, not COVID-1 folks,” Conway said on “Fox & Friends.” “And so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that.”
According to the WHO, COVID-19 is named after the year 2019 as it was “previously known as ‘2019 novel coronavirus.'”
Conway alleged the WHO was not honest about the origins of the coronavirus and that it was human-to-human contact that caused the virus to spread.
Watch her comments below:
Conway’s comments come shortly after Trump decided that his administration will suspend funding to the WHO over its approach to handling the coronavirus, as