2020年1月28日，您在北京與習主席會晤後，讚揚中國政府在處置冠狀病毒的「透明度」，宣稱中國設立了「控制疫情的新標準」、「替全世界爭取了時間」。您沒有提到當時揭露病毒消息的幾位醫生都遭到封口或懲處，中國的機構也不被允許發布相關消息。
On January 28, 2020, after meeting with President Xi in Beijing, you praised the Chinese government for its 「transparency」 with respect to the coronavirus, announcing that China had set a 「new standard for outbreak control」 and 「bought the world time.」 You did not mention that China had, by then, silenced or punished several doctors for speaking out about the virus and restricted Chinese institutions from publishing information about it.
即使在您在2020年1月30日終於宣布疫情為「國際關注的突發公共衛生事件」，您也未能敦促中國及時接納世衛的醫學專家（前往調查）。因此，這個關鍵團隊在兩週後的2020年2月16日才抵達中國。即便如此，當時還是到行程最後幾天，這個團隊才獲准造訪武漢。值得注意的是，當中國拒絕該團隊的兩名美國成員進入武漢時，世衛依舊保持沈默。
Even after you belatedly declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020, you failed to press China for the timely admittance of a World Health Organization team of international medical experts. As a result, this critical team did not arrive in China until two weeks later, on February 16, 2020. And even then, the team was not allowed to visit Wuhan until the final days of their visit. Remarkably, the World Health Organization was silent when China denied the two American members of the team access to Wuhan entirely.
