Senior Washington officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, recently expressed concern about the WHO report on the origins of the virus, suggesting that the Chinese Communist Party may have interfered excessively in the writing of the report. Blinken, pictured here, speaks at a press conference after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
Senior Biden administration officials expressed concern on Sunday (March 28) about the way the World health Organization (WHO) produced its report on the origins of the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia, COVID-19), noting that Chinese Communist authorities may have interfered in the writing of the report.
The WHO said last week that the report on the origin of the Wuhan virus has been completed, but it needs to be discussed by member states before it can be officially published.
In response to the upcoming report, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the U.S. has “real concerns” about how the report was produced and how it was written. Blinken said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the U.S. has “real concerns” about how the report was produced and how it was written, including that the Chinese Communist Party authorities “apparently helped write the report.
Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with CBS that he would not prejudge the conclusions, but he also stressed that the WHO panel apparently did not have free rein to collect data in China.
“I want to read the report first,” Fauci said on the outlet’s Face the Nation, “and you’re going to have a lot of speculation about what they actually did and what they were allowed or not allowed to do. not allowed to do.”
“If, in fact, it’s clear that there are a lot of restrictions on people going there on the ground, I would have considerable concerns about that.”
Earlier, members of the WHO investigation team that traveled to Wuhan, where COVID-19 originated, also said they did not have access to raw data about the disease.
Bloomberg notes that the Biden Administration has been pressuring the Chinese Communist Party and the WHO for weeks, pointing to flaws in the investigation into the origin of the virus.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Feb. 21, “We don’t think the Chinese Communist Party has provided enough raw data to understand how this Epidemic began spreading in China and eventually spread around the world.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told the media on Friday that Washington was concerned that the report’s preparation process and data lacked sufficient transparency.
Psaki said, “We have to do the research to make sure we get the basic information.” She reiterated her call for an international investigation into the epidemic because of “the lack of transparency in the Chinese Communist Party.”
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