animal-to-human translation. but taiwanese officials blew the whistle. taiwan center for disease control sent an e-mail to the world health organization, which has now been forwarded to my office and has been widely reported, warning of, quote, at least seven atypical pneumonia cases in wuhan, china, end of quote. additionally, this e-mail communication noted that those individuals had been isolated for treatment, which we now know is said to be a standard operating procedure for preventing human-to-human transition -- transmission. but still, at that time, it was considered animal-to-human. taken together, this information should have been very much a red flag for the world health organization's leadership that the virus was capable of human-to-human transition -- transmission. unfortunately, the world health organization chose to ignore these warnings and, thus, failed to pass on this critical information to other countries. instead, what did this world health organization do? it was complicit in the chinese government's cover-up, stating the opposite -- that it was not human-to-human transmission. in fact, the world health organization even retweeted chinese propaganda on january 14 that there was, quote, no cl