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    'Please Don't Politicize This Virus,' WHO Head Says After Trump Threatens Funding

    Using the COVID-19 pandemic to score political points is dangerous and will cause more deaths, the WHO's leader said Wednesday, after President Trump criticized the organization.
    by Bill Chappell Apr 08, 2020 3 minutes
    "No need to use COVID to score political points," World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. "You have many other ways to prove yourselves."

    Updated at 2:10 p.m. ET

    Using the COVID-19 pandemic to score political points is dangerous and will only cause more deaths, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday, after President Trump criticized the WHO and its relationship with China. Tedros also revealed that in recent months, other criticisms of him have included death threats.

    "Please don't politicize this virus," Tedros said in a briefing in Geneva, after he

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