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Chris Smith
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- Mysteries surrounding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic have yet to be solved, as the World Health Organization's investigation doesn't seem to be advancing at all.
- Two WHO officials who spent three weeks in China preparing the terms for the upcoming investigation did not even visit Wuhan, the place where the virus is believed to have originated.
- The WHO hasn't been able to provide any useful information about this trip, though it did say that the purpose of the visit wasn't to inspect Wuhan.
- The organization confirmed that a team of scientists from various countries will head to China, but it's unclear when that part of the investigation might actually happen.
We're more than eight months into this pandemic and we still have no idea how it all started. Several studies indicated that the initial Wuhan novel coronavirus epidemic may have begun even earlier than December and that the virus reached other parts of the world, including Europe and America, well before the first cases COVID-19 cases were confirmed. China has been often criticized for its lack of transparency in the early days of the pandemic and in the months that followed, and for not showing any willingness to investigate who the first COVID-19 patients were. The initial origin story involved a Wuhan market, where the virus was said to have jumped from animals to humans. China changed that story a few months ago, claiming that the Wuhan market was not a source. At the time, China also made it clear that the virus had not escaped from a Wuhan lab, as some conspiracy theorists and politicians have claimed. Weeks later, China again tried to shift the origin story, suggesting that the virus might not have even originated in China, but rather arrived from Spain.
In all this process, the World Health Organization has failed spectacularly to provide any answers. It didn't seem inquisitive enough in the early days, allowing China to set the tone when it comes to COVID-19 revelations. Some criticized China and the WHO for the late announcement that the virus was spreading from human to human. The WHO failed to work quickly in its efforts to identify the actual source of the illness, and the newest development seems to indicate that we may never learn how this massive pandemic started. The WHO officials who went to China recently spent three weeks in the country without even setting foot in Wuhan. Instead, the pair supposedly held meetings with officials in preparation for an actual investigation that might follow sometime soon.
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