Nine months after the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic, there is still no public, independent investigation into the origins of the novel virus that came out of China.
In an investigation published by the New York Times, the newspaper concludes that the Chinese government has failed to cooperate in any way with the World Health Organization as it, purportedly, attempts to understand the source of the virus.
The article calls the work of the WHO over the last months “both indispensable and impotent,” as the United Nations-affiliated group had led a significant effort to disseminate information about testing, treatments and possible vaccines. However, the WHO has failed to slow down global -travel patterns at the pandemic’s outset, due primarily to the political and economic considerations of the countries that finance the organization.
Another performance factor that even champions of the WHO are being forced to consider is the group’s willingness to bend at the knee to China.
“Even many of its supporters have been frustrated by the organization’s secrecy, its public praise for China and its quiet concessions,” The Times writes.
The WHO, now being watched carefully by China, and high on the list of organizations the Trump administration would be happy to see dismantled, appears to be continuing to look for answers pertaining to the virus’s beginnings.
However, the ruling Chinese Communist Party appears to be stifling some major aspects of the investigation’s independence…
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