The World health Organization (WHO) team visited the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research on Feb. 3. WHO officials said on Feb. 5 that the international team of experts traced the source of the virus in Wuhan, discussed with researchers including Shi Zhengli, and asked a large number of questions, but each answer led to more questions, and a future report will be written by international and Chinese experts, but this report cannot give all the answers.
According to the Central News Agency (CNA), the WHO team of experts began about two weeks of field work in Wuhan on January 29, following official arrangements by the Chinese Communist Party to conduct a follow-up study. In the past few days, they have visited the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, the South China Seafood Wholesale Market where the outbreak occurred, and the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital where patients were treated, among others.
On Feb. 3, the team arrived at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, the most high-profile site in the effort to trace the virus, which was suspected of being the source of the outbreak that triggered the global Epidemic.
Peter Daszak, a member of the international expert panel, confirmed that the WHO panel members visited the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research to discuss with researchers, including Shi Zhengli, “and to answer key questions. Shi Zhengli, who has long studied bats carrying coronaviruses, was the first expert in China to isolate the Chinese communist virus in 2017 after finding that bats carried a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-related virus. She has also been questioned as a key figure in the virus leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research.
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove replied that the international team of experts had made site visits to hospitals in Wuhan, to the CDC, and to the laboratories of the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, and that they had constructive conversations with Chinese scientists, asking a large number of questions, but that each answer spawned further questions.
The international team of experts is collating the data collected and analyzing it, and a report on the visit will be written by the international experts along with members of the Chinese team, while WHO will not have a viewpoint, to be written by scientists working in the field in China. Van Kochhove also said that the various studies of the ongoing traceability work are the starting point and more follow-up studies are needed, so this report cannot give all the answers and is not the original intention of WHO. WHO will provide a summary report after the visit, including the results of earlier studies, which will be published when the report is completed.
After a visit to the Communist Party’s Wuhan Institute of Virus Research on Feb. 3, Dasak told Reuters there was no evidence the virus came from a laboratory. However, the information shows that even Wuhan Institute of Virus researcher Shi Zhengli had self-doubt during the early stages of the outbreak.
In an interview with the monthly Scientific American last February, she revealed that her first thought when she was called back to Wuhan in a hurry on Dec. 30, 2019, was, “Could the virus have come out of our lab?”
At that Time, the viral samples of two patients with suspected SARS had been sent to the Virus Institute. Shi Zhengli rushed back to Wuhan from Shanghai and wondered uneasily on the way, “Did the Hubei Health Bureau make a mistake? Did it come from our laboratory?”
In addition, while praising the CCP’s “openness” and “cooperation,” Dasak admitted in an interview with the Associated Press on March 3 that the mission needed to submit questions to local people by email to CCP officials two days in advance to get permission.
International expert and host of “Crossroads of the World” Tang Hao analyzed four major suspicions about the WHO experts’ visit to China, including that the group’s itinerary and statements were closely controlled by the CCP; that the WHO experts showed a high degree of “restraint” in their statements; that the families of the victims in Wuhan were closely monitored by the police; and that the WHO experts were first arranged to visit The WHO experts were first arranged to visit the “Wuhan Anti-Epidemic Achievement Exhibition”.
According to Tang Hao, these four suspicions are sufficient to show that the investigation by the WHO expert team is in fact completely in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, and it is unlikely to find out the truth about the epidemic, and it may even end up as another political propaganda for the WHO to help the Chinese Communist Party wash its hands and whitewash the epidemic. Moreover, there are signs that the Chinese Communist Party may have mastered the Chinese Communist virus long ago, but only desperately tried to cover it up after the outbreak. This is something that very much needs to be investigated.
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