(CNN) No one can spin like Kellyanne Conway. It's the secret to how she has lasted so long as senior counselor to President Donald Trump, someone who puts a premium on his advisers' ability to take lemons and turn them into lemonade. Or at least tell people they turned them into lemonade.

But Conway's sangfroid for spin occasionally gets her into trouble. Wednesday morning was one of those times. In an appearance on "Fox & Friends," Conway was asked about Trump's decision Tuesday to revoke US funding for the World Health Organization. Here's what she said (bolding is mine):

"The President took decisive and immediate action at the end of January to shut down flights to China. That was criticized by the WHO. It was criticized by other people as xenophobic and racist and travel bans don't work. Well, this one sure did. We have every right to know. And every right to know because what's happened here in this global pandemic. But there's another reason, some of the scientists and doctors say that there could be other strains later on. This could come back in the fall in a limited way. This is Covid-19, not Covid-1, folks. You would think that people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that. This is just a pause right now. So there is an investigation, examination to what happened. But people should know the facts."

The message Conway is trying to spin here is clear: The WHO had 18 previous chances to tell the world about Covid-19 -- and didn't do a good job of it. Man, they must really stink! Or, are they, maybe, hiding things from America?!?!!?

Except ... the reason the novel coronavirus is called Covid-19 is because it emerged in, well, 2019. As the WHO noted in in its February 11 Situation Report

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