"If we were included in the WHO epidemic disease alert network, then we would be notified of any emergency situation anywhere in the world," says Huang Song-lih, a professor in the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at Yang Ming University. Taiwan is now isolated, and therefore is not notified of important developments, leaving the country to pick up epidemic information only via friendly officials from other countries or from nongovernmental channels.
「如果我們在 WHO 的疫情通報體系，世界上任何地方發生疫情，台灣都會被通知，」陽明大學環境衛生研究所教授黃嵩立指出，目前台灣是處在疫情無人通知的孤立狀態，只靠著各國友好的官員或非官方的管道獲得疫情訊息。