China Refuses to Give WHO Raw Data on Early Covid-19 Cases

[mellowyellow]

BEIJING—Chinese authorities refused to provide World Health Organization investigators with raw, personalized data on early Covid-19 cases that could help them determine how and when the coronavirus first began to spread in China, according to WHO investigators who described heated exchanges over the lack of detail….

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-...uthorities refused to,over the lack of detail.


The Australian member of the World Health Organisation investigation team sent to Wuhan said there was pressure in their face-to-face meetings with their hosts during the trip. Dominic Dwyer, who is a microbiologist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, was part of a 10-member team of experts sent to China to explore the origin of the coronavirus. "It was actually very complicated and very tense. There is certainly political pressure, and I think that pressure is actually more on the Chinese side than it is on us," he told the ABC.............
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02...stigator-discusses-china-covid-probe/13140456

 

[Don M.]

Anyone who thinks that the Chinese government would tell the WHO, or anyone , the truth about how this pandemic started, is engaging in "wishful thinking".

 

[garyt1957]

China is a lying, tech stealing, currency manipulating, polluting menace to the rest of the world. And we are handing them the keys to the kingdom on a platter.

 

[Irwin]

What? You mean we can't trust China's dictator? I'm shocked! Dictators are usually so straightforward and honest.

 

[terry123]

No we are not surprised by this! Can't believe anyone is.

 

[911]

This isn’t surprising. It’s well known that the Chinese and the W.H.O. are in bed together, so they get a pass.

I keep wondering what or if anything will happen to Governor Cuomo. I will say this, the two boys are nothing like their father. I met Mario Cuomo years back and he was a very nice, respectful person. He appreciated the police in this country.