WHO's Italian Embarrassment?

It looks bad. Francesco Zambon and 10 European colleagues were funded to write a report to help the world deal more effectively with pandemics (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/who-accused-conspiring-italy-remove-damning-covid-report). The 102 page report, 'An Unprecedented Challenge: Italy's First Response to Covid-19' focused on Italy, because it was the first European country to experience a surge of this viral infection. The report noted that Italy's pandemic plan had not been updated since 2006. It suggested that, as a consequence, the initial response from hospitals was "improvised, chaotic and creative". The report was posted on the WHO website on the 13th May 2020 but removed the next day. Some claim that the removal was at the request of Italian Ranieri Guerra, the WHO Assistant Director General for Strategic Initivatives. Guerra had previously been Director General at the Italian Health Ministry between 2014 and 2017. At that time, he would have had responsibility for updating the pandemic plan. Guerra currently also serves on the Italian Government Covid-19 task force. As I said, it looks bad. Worse, it may lessen the sense of urgency to change things.