WELL, YES: China Will Do Anything to Deflect Coronavirus Blame. “Not a single reputable epidemiologist has shown any evidence that the coronavirus came from anywhere else but China, and the Italian doctor whose comments were taken out of context to boost the case has publicly refuted it. Yet this is important because by permanently, or even temporarily, injecting doubt into the origins of the coronavirus through this question, Beijing hopes to escape blame for its initial cover-up of the outbreak in December and January, which cost the world precious time to rally resources and create a potentially successful containment strategy.”
Well, China has important allies in the press.
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Plus: How WHO Became China’s Coronavirus Accomplice.
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