‘Politics, Not Science’: Scientists Cast Doubt On China’s Story Of COVID-19

excalibur · Feb 22, 2021

As Traitor Joe©™ is playing footsie with his CCP masters.

And the WHO is useless, so Joe rejoins 'em and then sends 'em bundles of money anyway.

The World Health Organization recently concluded its six-week investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, but some of its conclusions, including that the virus did not jump to humans before December 2019 and that it was “extremely unlikely” that it originated in a lab, have solicited skepticism from scientists.

Some of the scientific doubt, however, was not in response to the WHO, but to China’s unwillingness to provide holistic data regarding the appearance and early spread of the virus throughout Wuhan. While Chinese officials identified more than 72,000 people who had COVID-19-like symptoms between October and December 2019, World Health Organization investigators said, they only further evaluated 92 and did not disclose why over 99% of them forwent additional tests.

The investigative team, led by Dr. Ben Embarek, said that they repeatedly pressed the Chinese for the criteria that they used to drastically narrow the cases that were further studied, but to no avail. Of the 92, just 67 were submitted to serology tests by Chinese scientists, all of which came back negative, Embarek said before adding that further research was needed to be able to confidently conclude that the virus did not transmit to humans before December.

“We assessed all of this work and suggested further studies,” Embarek told Science Magazine after the conclusion of the WHO’s preliminary investigation, saying that additional tests could determine whether those 92 cases were really negative and that “going down from 72,000 to 92 shows that the criteria were perhaps a bit too stringent.”

The criteria used, and China’s unwillingness to provide it in detail to the WHO’s investigative team, raises doubts as to whether the coronavirus was first transmitted to humans on Dec. 31, 2019 as Wuhan’s Municipal Health Commission originally reported. Chinese government records have also shown that the coronavirus was traced back to at least November 2019, according to the South China Morning Post.

“This is so politically fraught,” Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Columbia University, told The Wall Street Journal. “It was probably circulating much more widely than they believed.”

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