The world found out about patients falling wiped out with a strange pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec. 31, Taiwan's wellbeing authorities shot an email to the World Health Organization requesting more data.

This four-sentence request has since become grub for the political fight among China and the U.S. what's more, takes steps to wound the notoriety of the U.N's. wellbeing office as it drives the battle against a remarkable worldwide pandemic.  

Taiwanese and U.S. authorities have seized on the email to contend the WHO disregarded an early admonition that the coronavirus could probably be transmitted between individuals. In the weeks following the Dec. 31 note, the WHO reverberated Chinese authorities that there was "no away from of human-to-human transmission"— even as cases started springing up that raised doubt of disease.  

In a meeting with TIME, Dr. Lo Yi-chun, the appointee executive general of Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says the WHO ought to have followed up on Taiwan's question by leading its own examination. Rather, he says the WHO "gave an incorrect feeling that all is well with the world to the world."  

The WHO has shielded its treatment of the flare-up and says it depends on part nations like China to precisely report their discoveries. It likewise noticed that Taiwan's email didn't unequivocally make reference to human-to-human transmission, and that oneself overseeing island was not the first nor the just one to contact the association about the infection.  

However the investigation has increased. President Donald Trump — confronting analysis over his own administration's reaction — has refered to Taiwan's email as proof of the WHO supposedly helping China coverup the seriousness of the episode, and suspended U.S. commitments to the wellbeing office in April. Both Beijing and the WHO deny any camouflage.  

On Tuesday, Trump took steps to make the subsidizing freeze changeless in a letter sent to the WHO chief as countries assembled essentially for the WHO's yearly dynamic gathering. Referencing "rehashed stumbles" in the WHO's controlling of the pandemic reaction — including picking "not to share" Taiwan's correspondence — Trump said he could no longer submit American citizens' dollars to the organization except if it embraces "significant meaningful enhancements in the following 30 days."  

With Taiwan at the center of attention, TIME talked with wellbeing authorities, legislators and experts to unload what the island of 23 million knew in the basic beginning of the pandemic when it started a fast reaction that helped it keep its contamination rate among the most minimal on the planet.

His partners in the media checking unit had identified online life posts about pneumonia of obscure reason in Wuhan. The first posts in China were immediately evacuated, yet screen captures had been reposted on PTT, a well known online gathering in Taiwan. Some analysts dreaded a resurgence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which had executed 774 individuals in 2002 and 2003, for the most part in Asia.  

Lo, an irresistible illness master, took a gander at the pictures of research center reports and specialists' messages and suspected something different, something new. "Be that as it may, regardless of whether the source was dependable or … showed the right pathogen [couldn't] be demonstrated just from understanding that," he says. So he taught his associate to connect with partners in Beijing and the WHO through the International Health Regulations instrument, a WHO structure of trade between nations, to request more data.  

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Taiwan doesn't sit down at the WHO because of protests from Beijing, which claims power over the island. This prohibition, Taiwan says, is hazardous for general wellbeing. The WHO, which is administered by its part states thus doesn't have authority over enrollment, says it has been sharing data identified with the pandemic with Taiwan. In the interim, the Trump Administration has homed in on the status of its partner as it assaults the connection between the WHO and China.  

With the line raising, and after WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus blamed Taiwan for sponsorship a supremacist battle against him, the island's CDC freely discharged its Dec. 31 email.  

Written in English, the content notices reports of "at any rate seven atypical pneumonia cases" and notes that patients were being "separated for treatment." Taiwan's outside service reads a clock in a messaged articulation that this safety measure was the conclusive evidence, "firmly proposing that there was a chance of human-to-human transmission," since it would not have been vital if the malady was not irresistible. General wellbeing authorities could have perceived from this wording a suggested cautioning about infection, as indicated by articulations from Taiwan's remote service and CDC.  

Wellbeing specialists reached by TIME were separated, with some taking note of that "atypical pneumonia is thought to be transmittable," while others state segregating patients with a conceivably novel pathogen is a reasonable safety measure.  

The WHO says it is proceeding to encourage collaborations between its specialists and Taiwan regardless of the island's non-part status. These incorporate having Taiwanese wellbeing specialists partake in two WHO COVID-19 systems set up in January and holding telephone briefings between the WHO and wellbeing experts in Taipei.  

The Trump Administration had likewise upheld for Taiwan's incorporation as WHO part states met for the current week for the main World Health Assembly since the coronavirus pandemic. Not long before the gathering started Monday, Taiwan consented to have its offered for investment thought later, referring to the requirement for the occasion to concentrate on combatting the episode.