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WHO was warned lives were at risk over yanked Italy report

by Nicole Winfield
| December 20, 2020 12:03 AM

ROME (AP) — An author of a withdrawn World Health Organization report into Italy's coronavirus response warned his bosses in May that people could die and the U.N. agency could suffer “catastrophic” reputational damage if it allowed political concerns to suppress the document, according to emails seen by The Associated Press.

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