NBC NEWS: Coronavirus blame game threatens to mar World Health Assembly

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"The principal spoiler at this event, I think, is going to be the United States," said Mukesh Kapila, a former adviser to the WHO's previous director-general. Kapila has also worked at a slew of other U.N. agencies and for the British government during his 30-year career.

"It may well use this forum to grandstand its attacks on China and, of course, the leadership of the WHO — in fact, I'm quite sure they will do so," said Kapila, who is now a professor of global health and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester in England.