Inconsistencies continue to come from the World Health Organization and China. The WHO has repeatedly come to the defense of China, prompting President Trump to relinquish funding. Shocking new evidence shows that China never reported the existence of the coronavirus directly to WHO. Both Chinese officials and the WHO have previously claimed China did in fact report the spread of the virus. In actuality, “international health officials discovered the virus through information posted to a U.S. website” reports the Washington Free Beacon.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom for months said China informed them about the virus, and it was confirmed on a WHO timeline tracking the virus. China also insisted in multiple interviews and media releases that they went directly to WHO with information about the virus at a responsible length of time.
The “WHO’s backtracking lends credibility to a recent congressional investigation that determined China concealed information about the virus and did not initially inform the WHO, as it was required to do” writes the Washington Free Beacon. The WHO posted an updated timeline this week which confirms officials learned about the virus on December 31, 2019, with information posted on a United States website by doctors who first experienced the virus working in Wuhan. Originally WHO’s timeline stated China alerted them on the same day.
According to the WHO’s initial timeline, the “Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province” on Dec. 31. The WHO’s backtracking “lends credibility to a recent congressional investigation that determined China concealed information about the virus and did not initially inform the WHO, as it was required to do” writes the Washington Free Beacon.
Texas Republican Representative Michael McCaul of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of Congress’s China Task Force, “was one of the first lawmakers to expose China’s lies about reporting the virus. An interim congressional report on the virus’s origins published last month first disclosed the fact that the WHO found out about the virus from online postings, not China” according to the Washington Free Beacon.
In a statement, McCaul told the Washington Free Beacon“I’m glad to see the WHO and the Chinese Communist Party have both read my interim report on the origins of the pandemic and are finally admitting to the world the truth – the CCP never reported the virus outbreak to the WHO in violation of WHO regulation.” McCaul added, “the question now is whether the CCP will continue their false propaganda campaign that continues to claim they warned the world, or whether they will come clean and begin to work with the world health community to get to the bottom of this deadly pandemic.”
