From News Nation:
“WHO team:
More studies needed of coronavirus origin”
The World
Health Organization’s report on the origins of the coronavirus following a
mission to Wuhan, China, was released Tuesday, but Director Dr. Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus says further study is required. The review, which was conducted for
a WHO team on international experts in Wuhan, China, between Jan. 14 and Feb.
10, is considered a first step in what will likely become a years-long
investigation into the virus’ origins. The report points to transmission from
bats to another animal and subsequently to humans as the most likely way the
pandemic began.
Although many
early cases of COVID-19 were connected to a seafood market in Wuhan where
animal products were sold, the report found that a similar number of cases were
associated with other markets or no markets at all. Extensive testing at the
Huanan seafood market found no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in those animals.
However, viruses from some of the Huanan market cases were identical, the
report detailed, suggesting the market contributed to spreading the virus — an
early super spreader event — even if it did not originate there. “No firm conclusion
therefore about the role of the Huanan market in the origin of the outbreak, or
how the infection was introduced into the market, can currently be drawn,”
according to the report. Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO expert who led the mission
to Wuhan, China, said it was “perfectly possible” COVID-19 cases were
circulating in November or October 2019 around Wuhan, potentially leading to
the disease spreading abroad earlier than documented so far. He said the team
felt political pressure, including from outside China, but that he never was
pressed to remove anything from its final report. Tedros said on Tuesday that
data was withheld from WHO investigators. He made the comments to the agency’s
member states, in a separate press briefing. China refused to give raw data on
early COVID-19 cases to the WHO-led team, one of the team’s investigators has
already said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the global
pandemic began. “In my discussions with the team, they expressed the
difficulties they encountered in accessing raw data,” Tedros said. “I expect
future collaborative studies to include more timely and comprehensive data
sharing.”
The conclusions
that the virus origins remains incomplete likely means that tensions over how
the pandemic started – and whether China has helped or hinder efforts to find
out, as the United States has alleged – will continue. Although the team
concluded a leak from a Wuhan-area laboratory was the least likely hypothesis
for the virus that causes COVID-19, Tedros said, the matter requires further
investigation, potentially with additional missions back to China. More than 20
heads of government and global agencies called in a commentary published
Tuesday for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness that they say
will protect future generations.
^ No one should
accept the findings of this report. It’s clear that China has done everything
it can to hide the truth about Covid since it started in Wuhan. They even tried
to stop the WHO from sending in a team to investigate Covid (for months.) They are also under-reporting their
infections, hospitalizations and deaths so they can seem like they have
everything under control. They are also supplying their own Vaccine around the
world to gain influence in those places while their own citizens back in China
are not being vaccinated in great numbers. All of that is easy to do for a
Communist Dictatorship and China is really milking that authoritative stance. ^
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