WHO Chief Rebuts Alex Jones' 'COVID 2.0' Claim, Citing 10 Hantavirus Cases

4 articles · Updated · Forbes · May 15

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said WHO is not staging a hantavirus “rollout” and that the current outbreak totals 10 confirmed cases globally, with no deaths recorded since May 2.
His response came after Alex Jones alleged health officials were reviving “COVID 2.0” through fraudulent hantavirus reporting and using it to distract from a weakening world economy.
More than 40 people in the U.S. are being monitored because of the cruise-ship outbreak, but the CDC said Thursday there were no U.S. cases and the public risk remained low.
The outbreak was traced to the MV Hondius expedition from Ushuaia, Argentina, and involved the Andes strain, a rare hantavirus variant that can spread through prolonged close contact.
All recent deaths were tied to the ship-based cluster, which WHO says keeps the broader global risk low even as passengers from the U.S., U.K. and Spain are monitored.

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