WHILE the world’s attention is distracted towards the sensational events in Afghanistan, an event of equal or even far greater import is being missed by the rest of the global media: the latest pronouncement dated August 25, 2021 of the 11-man WHO-China team of virologists, epidemiologists and scientist that went to Wuhan, China from January to February to gather data and reach initial conclusions about the possible origins of the Covid-19 virus.
Among the most important initial conclusions of the team after a four-week stay in China was that a lab-leak origin at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was “extremely unlikely;” there was “no widespread transmission in Wuhan prior to December 2019,” that the “most likely pathway was crossover into human from an intermediary species but (this) requires more study” and, “imported frozen food at Wuhan market was not ruled out” as a source of the virus.
On February 12, 2021 the international media reported in a media conference that, “… the (WHO) experts pledged to investigate reports that the virus might have been present outside China months before the outbreak in Wuhan” as there have been numerous reports and evidence of the COVID-19 virus presence in archived blood and sewerage samples from 5 countries while testimonies from the US of illnesses and deaths in early 2019 and 2020 were wrongly attributed to the common flu.
In its most recent public statement through the 152-years old Nature science journal. the WHO-China team clarified the criticisms “from some governments (tactfully unnamed but presumably from the US and some allies like Australia) were circulated” claiming China “had not share data adequately” claiming insufficient attention to the lab-leak hypothesis and because of China’s “influence.”
All these they answered satisfactorily and readers can refer to at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02263-6
The most crucial lines in the WHO team statement which will bring us to the U.S. demands for an “independent body” to revisit Wuhan, China and the lab-leak theory is this:
“Crucially, the window is rapidly closing on the biological feasibility of conducting the critical trace-back of people and animals inside and outside China.
“SARS-CoV-2 antibodies wane, so collecting further samples and testing people who might have been exposed before December 2019 will yield diminishing returns.”
US behavior with regards to virus origin-tracing investigations is convoluted and suspicious, starting with candidate Biden’s skepticism of Trump’s “China virus” in 2020 up to his January 27, 2021 directive for all US official communication to be rid of any use of the terms “China virus.”
Yet, on May 25, 2021 Biden reversed himself and ordered his intelligence community to review within 90-days the lab-leak theory. This week, the 90-days is up and yet no report has been seen by the public.
The New York times reported Aug. 24, 2021 that Biden had received “preliminary report on virus origin” delivered by his director of national intelligence but the report says “the nation’s spy agencies have not yet concluded whether the disease was the result of an accidental leak from a lab or it if emerged naturally…”
It is likely now that the US intelligence community has found it impossible to fit the “China lab-leak” theory into any real evidence they have tried to find or formulate.
WHO finds itself hamstrung from pursuing a second phase of the investigation, particularly the “outside China” part where evidence exists as early as 2019 from blood and municipal sewage samples containing COVID-19 antigens, cases of the disease posthumously found to be C OVID-19 victims, patients’ testimonies of infection in 2019, and the cases of Ft. Detrick and the many University of North Carolina coronavirus research – are waiting to be examined before they all disappear.
Or, is the whole scenario the U.S. is creating a way to distract, delay and ultimately block the WHO team from investigating the possible U.S. sources of the COVID-19 virus?
USA Today in its 2015 investigative report titled, “Inside America’s secretive biolabs” cited the “hundreds of lab mistakes, safety violations and near-miss incident (that) have occurred in biological laboratories coast to coast in recent years, putting scientists, their colleagues and sometimes even the public, at risk.”
Could all the baseless but continuous and relentless media insinuations of the Wuhan lab-leak theory (already debunked by the WHO team) actually be a cover-up for the confirmed lab-leak site, the US Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases in Ft. Detrick, Maryland, USA?
It has been shut down by the US Center for Disease Control in August 2019 and the shutdown report is fast disappearing with all the media misdirection led by the US and its politization of the WHO virus-origins tracing investigation.
With the US continuously kicking the can of worms (or viruses) down the road, it certainly looks as if it’s a scenario to obfuscate and cover-up by the US and Biden the call to also have the US investigated as a source of the virus.
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