The World health Organization released a report on the investigation of the source of the new pneumonia Epidemic on the 30th. The Wall Street Journal analyzed the contents as a “whitewashed” document with serious interference from the Chinese Communist Party and interested Westerners.
The photo shows the WHO expert team at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research.
The WHO sent a team of international experts to Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in mid-January to investigate the origins of the New Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and the mission concluded its visit with this report. The Wall Street Journal published an article in its Op-Ed and Opinion section mentioning that the content was nothing new, but the team analyzed four possibilities.
The report says the most likely origin of the virus is from bats to humans through intermediate hosts; the second possibility is direct transmission from bats to humans; and the third is consistent with Beijing‘s claim that the virus entered China with frozen Food, which the WHO says is “not impossible,” but requires further study.
Most notable is the fourth claim, in which the team of experts determined that it was “highly unlikely” that the virus was leaked from a laboratory such as the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The report simply states that the Wuhan Institute “is well managed and has a staff health monitoring program” and recommends “regular administrative and internal reviews of high level biosafety laboratories around the world” while tracking new traces.
In 2018, U.S. officials warned in a diplomatic cable about security and management issues at the Wuhan Institute, particularly troubling because the institute was conducting research on coronavirus “gain of function,” a theoretical study of coronavirus. gain of function” research that could theoretically allow the virus to infect new species.
While the U.S. State Department stated in a background note in January that Wuhan Institute personnel had “symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and common seasonal illness” in the fall of 2019, the WHO report credited the Chinese government’s claim that “in the months to weeks prior to December 2019 In the months to weeks prior to December 2019, there were no notifications of respiratory illnesses consistent with COVID-19.
Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, said last week that the lab had no involvement with the military, but the State Department said in January, based on extensive intelligence, that the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research had “worked with the Chinese Communist military on publications and secret programs” for years.
The Wall Street Journal noted that the WHO’s weak analysis was not surprising, that Chinese government scientists provided much of the information and worked with an international panel of experts to write the report, and that Beijing restricted independent access to information on the origins of the virus, as it did last year to silence scientists and journalists who questioned the official narrative; the report’s publication date was delayed several times, and the two sides eventually negotiated a report that was more political than scientific. The report’s publication date was delayed several times, and both sides eventually negotiated a report that was more political than scientific.
The article also alleges that the WHO expert panel was caught in a conflict of interest, with one of its members, American zoologist Peter Daszak, having worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research for many years and also supported the “functional acquisition” study. As early as February last year, he helped coordinate a statement in the medical journal The Lancet denouncing “conspiracy theories that imply COVID-19 is not natural”.
Another member, virologist Marion Koopmans, who runs a group in the Netherlands that has conducted “access to function” research, also faces serious consequences if the virus originated in a laboratory.
President Joe Biden‘s administration has not taken a firm position on the theory that the virus was leaked from a lab, but senior expert Anthony Fauci downplayed the claim last week.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out that Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research program and had supported “functional access” research, so he was not in a position to reassure the public about the laboratory’s coronavirus research.
Even the WHO has doubts about the report, Secretary General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today, “I don’t think the scale of this assessment is broad enough, and more information and research is needed to reach a stronger conclusion.”
He added that while the mission determined that the virus was least likely to have been leaked from the laboratory, further investigation is still needed.
The U.S., Japan and 14 other countries expressed common concern through a joint statement today that the study was long delayed and that experts were unable to obtain complete original information and samples.
The article concludes by saying that the matter cannot be left as it is, and that the Biden Administration should make the information it has public, otherwise Chinese propaganda will become mainstream under the powerlessness of the WHO.
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