World health Organization (WHO) team member Dominic Dwyer, who is responsible for investigating the origin of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), arrives at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on February 3, 2021
The World Health Organization publishes a report on the investigation of the origin of the novel coronavirus outbreak. “The Wall Street Journal analyzed that the contents of the report can be considered as a “whitewashed” document with serious interference from the Chinese Communist Party and interested Westerners. The Central News Agency said that even the WHO has doubts about the report, with Secretary General Tan Desai saying, “I don’t think the 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 a laboratory, further investigation is still needed. The White House questioned the report, arguing that it lacked key information and interviews, and called for a second phase of the investigation, which would consist of independent international experts with unrestricted access to data and field visits.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, the final report on the traceability of the new crown did not answer key questions. A World Health Organization-led team investigating the traceability of the New Guinea outbreak found that the data reviewed during a recent visit to China were insufficient to answer key questions about when, where and how the virus began to spread, the newspaper said.
The long-awaited report presents the results of a four-week investigation of Wuhan completed earlier this year by WHO-led investigators. Wuhan was the site of the first confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in December 2019. The expert panel that conducted the China trip had little authority to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation. Faced with international pressure to conduct a retrospective investigation into the New coronavirus outbreak, China initially did not agree. The Epidemic has now killed 2.8 million people.
The final report was distributed to WHO member states but has not been made public.
It is not surprising that the WHO expert panel is caught in a conflict of interest and that the report is weak in its analysis. The contents can simply be seen as a “whitewashed” document with heavy interference from the Chinese Communist Party and interested Westerners.
The report was submitted after the WHO team of international experts was dispatched to Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in mid-January to investigate the origins of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The Central News Agency today quoted an article published in the columns and opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, mentioning that the content is nothing new, but the expert 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 illnesses” 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.”
According to the report, Wuhan Institute of Virus Research researcher Shi Zhengli 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 military on publications and classified programs” for years.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the WHO’s weak analysis is not surprising, as Chinese government scientists provided most of the information and worked with an international panel of experts to write the report, and 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 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 last February, he helped coordinate the publication of a statement in the medical journal The Lancet denouncing “conspiracy theories that imply that COVID-19 is not naturally occurring.
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 led the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research program and had also supported the “functional access” study, so he did not take a position to reassure the public on the laboratory’s coronavirus research.
The Central News Agency said that even the WHO has doubts about the report, Secretary General Tan Desai (Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus) said today, “I do not think the scale of this assessment is broad enough to reach a stronger conclusion, more information and research is needed.” 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 today through a joint statement that the study was long delayed and that experts were unable to obtain complete raw information and samples.
The Wall Street Journal article concluded by saying that the matter cannot be left like this, and that the Biden Administration should make the information in its hands public, otherwise China’s propaganda will become mainstream under the powerlessness of the WHO, and since the Biden administration says it wants to revive the multilateral mechanism, it should start by refusing to accept the WHO’s “whitewash” of Wuhan.
The Central News Agency reported today that the White House questioned the WHO’s report on the origin of the epidemic today, arguing that the report lacked key information and interviews, and called for a second phase of the investigation, consisting of independent international experts with unrestricted access to data and field visits.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, asked at a regular press conference today about her views on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19, Wuhan pneumonia) Origins Investigation Report, said the American people, the international community, medical experts, physicians and all those working to save lives, as well as families who have lost loved ones, are entitled to more The report was published in the U.S. Department of Health.
Sachs said the report, which is being evaluated by a U.S. government expert panel, lacks key data and interviews and provides a partial and incomplete picture. She also called for a second phase of action, consisting of independent international experts with unrestricted access to data and field interviews.
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