On Tuesday (Feb. 9), the World health Organization (WHO) issued a statement saying that the COVID-19 pandemic could not have started with a leak at the Wuhan laboratory (Wuhan Virus Institute). On Thursday (Feb. 11), WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus changed his statement to say that all hypotheses about the origin of the virus were still under consideration.
Peter Ben Embarek, WHO Food safety and animal disease expert and chair of the investigation team, dismissed the theory that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology at a press conference on Tuesday, claiming that this hypothesis is “highly unlikely” and not recommended for future research. He further said that the “most likely” route for the CCP virus to enter humans is through crossover of intermediate species.
Speaking at a regular briefing in Geneva on Thursday, Tandse said that no hypothesis was ruled out. He said, “After talking to some members of the investigation team, I would like to clarify that all hypotheses are still open and need to be studied further.”
Since the outbreak in China, the Chinese Communist Party has been doing everything it can to prevent an investigation into the origin of the virus. The virus is now causing a global pandemic that has killed more than 2.36 million people. Following Enbarrick’s comments ruling out the possibility of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab, Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott tweeted that the WHO is acting as a puppet of the CCP, helping it spread misinformation, and inaction in the face of the COVID-19 threat. This is inexcusable and they must be held accountable.
A Feb. 12 report in The Wall Street Journal quoted investigators as saying that Chinese Communist authorities refused to provide WHO investigators with raw, personalized data on the 174 early cases identified in the early stages of the December 2019 Wuhan outbreak, data that would have been helpful to investigators in determining how and when the virus first began spreading in China. And WHO member states typically provide such data as part of WHO investigations.
Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that WHO ignored a fact-checking report on the Wuhan lab released by the Trump administration’s State Department in January.
“I think the statement that the WHO made yesterday (Tuesday) was false.” Ratcliffe told Fox News, “I worked very hard with Pompeo to get some of the best intelligence we could before we left office a couple of weeks ago so we could talk about what we know about China and COVID.”
He added, “The Chinese (Communist Party) military ordered scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research to start doing experiments on coronaviruses as early as 2017. Some of these viruses are 96.2 percent genetically similar to the current COVID-19 virus, and in addition, some scientists working on coronavirus-like research developed the disease with COVID symptoms in the fall of 2019.”
In media interviews during his tenure as secretary of state, Pompeo said that all evidence now suggests that the coronavirus (Chinese communist virus) outbreak originated in China.On January 15, the U.S. State Department released a fact check on what the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) did, focusing on three actions by the institute related to the origin of the virus that need actions that warrant further review and warrant further investigation.
In the fact-checking statement, the State Department listed three major suspicions at the Wuhan Institute of Virology: 1. Several researchers within the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) became ill in the fall of 2019 with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses; 2. Since at least 2016, researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have conducted research involving RaTG13 (Note: Coronavirus type B is a genus of virus that infects bats and is a SARS-associated coronavirus) virus that is a SARS-associated coronavirus) and showed no signs of stopping before the COVID-19 outbreak; 3. Covert military activities at the Wuhan Virus Institute.
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