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Lawmakers Question WHO Covid-19 Investigation Report – Will Biden Pressure China?

&NewLine;<p>Lawmakers are already calling into question the accuracy of a World Health Organization report released Monday on the origins of COVID-19&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What we do know already with regards to China and the virus is that they did not provide transparency&semi; they did not share information&semi; they did not give access when it mattered most in the early days of this virus&comma;” says Secretary of State Antony Blinken&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We do not believe that China has made available sufficient&comma; original data into how this pandemic began to spread both in China and then eventually around the world&comma;&&num;8221&semi; adds National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>The WHO report was rejected by a team of international scientists who called for an &&num;8220&semi;unrestricted&&num;8221&semi; investigation in Wuhan&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The joint team did not have the mandate&comma; the independence&comma; or the necessary accesses to carry out a full and unrestricted investigation into all the relevant SARS-CoV-2 origin hypotheses – whether natural spillover or laboratory&sol;research related incident&comma;&&num;8221&semi; wrote the team in an open letter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The WHO report supports the bat-to-human transmission theory&period; It rules out the lab-leak theory as &&num;8220&semi;extremely unlikely<strong>&&num;8220&semi;<&sol;strong> even though the only lab in China authorized to handle deadly airborne pathogens is located in Wuhan&comma; the location of the first reported case&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Wuhan lab conducts biological warfare research and specializes in coronaviruses&period;&nbsp&semi;In 2018&comma; American diplomats visiting the Wuhan lab expressed concerns about risky research on bat coronaviruses and how they infect humans&period; As noted by former CDC Director Robert Redfield &lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;trumps-cdc-director-says-covid-escaped-from-chinese-lab&sol;">read more here<&sol;a>&rpar;&comma; the very nature of the virus suggests it was manufactured in a lab&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"wp-block-heading"><strong>WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has acknowledged numerous issues with the WHO investigation&comma; including&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><li>The inability to access raw lab data <&sol;li><li>The inability to access medical records of early patients including three employees of the Wuhan lab who were hospitalized with an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unidentified virus” in November 2019<&sol;li><li>The inability to spend unsupervised time with Chinese counterparts <&sol;li><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>President Joe Biden seems to support the call for an investigation into the report’s credibility&period; But he has already reversed Trump’s decision to pull out of the WHO based on its obvious loyalty to Beijing&period;&nbsp&semi;His 200-page COVID strategy does not mention China nor does it question the disease’s origin&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Biden Administration&&num;8217&semi;s failure to press for answers is dangerous&comma;” warns <em>New York Post<&sol;em> contributor Betsy McCaughey&period; China has seen what a virus can do and has publicly acknowledged its interest in biological warfare&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Why build nuclear weapons when a virus can wipe out rivals and ensure world dominance&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Author’s Note&colon; <&sol;strong>Based on what we’ve seen so far&comma; President Biden will never hold China accountable for releasing COVID-19&period; He will also never pressure the WHO on its shortcomings and questionable loyalty&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nypost&period;com&sol;2021&sol;03&sol;23&sol;will-team-biden-ever-get-tough-on-china-over-covids-origins&sol;">Will Team Biden ever get tough on China over COVID’s origins&quest;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;2021&sol;02&sol;10&sol;world&sol;coronavirus-newsletter-02-10-21-intl&sol;index&period;html">A WHO expert snaps at Biden over an investigation into COVID-19’s origins&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usnews&period;com&sol;news&sol;world&sol;articles&sol;2021-02-09&sol;white-house-to-scrutinize-who-report-that-says-covid-19-unlikely-from-chinese-lab">US to Scrutinize WHO Report That Rules Out COVID-19 Came From Chinese Lab&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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