{"id":129812,"date":"2021-02-14T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=129812"},"modified":"2021-02-14T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:13:20","slug":"white-house-has-deep-concerns-over-who-report-on-china-and-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-has-deep-concerns-over-who-report-on-china-and-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Has \u2018Deep Concerns\u2019 Over WHO Report On China And Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-has-deep-concerns-over-who-report-on-china-and-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=129812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WHO.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden White House reportedly has \u201cdeep concerns\u201d over a report from the World Health Organization that appeared to gloss over the Chinese origins of the novel coronavirus \u2014 and which, now, seems to have been completed without the necessary raw data from Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement late Saturday, the White House called on China to open its books and provide data on the first days of the coronavirus pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden\/white-house-cites-deep-concerns-about-who-covid-report-demands-n1257850\">NBC News report<\/a>s. The Biden Administration raised concerns, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/12\/world\/asia\/china-world-health-organization-coronavirus.html\">surfaced in a New York Times report<\/a> last week, that Chinese scientists refused to give WHO investigators any patient data and \u201curged the WHO team to embrace the government\u2019s narrative about the source of the virus, including the unproven notion that it might have spread to China from abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement that it is imperative that the report be independent and free from \u2018alteration by the Chinese government,&#8217;\u201d NBC noted Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRe-engaging the WHO also means holding it to the highest standards,\u201d Sullivan said in his statement. \u201cWe have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the Covid-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that this report be independent, with expert findings free from intervention or alteration by the Chinese government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/china-refused-to-hand-over-important-data-when-world-health-organization-investigated-origins-of-coronavirus\/\">Daily Wire\u2019s Ashe Schow reported<\/a> last week, the NYT cast serious doubt on the WHO\u2019s report, largely exonerating the Chinese government for poor handling, poor control, and poor management of the pandemic, noting that WHO scientists were not allowed to access patient data and could not convince the Chinese government to release any information about the diseases\u2019 spread within China before December of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[WHO scientist Thea K\u00f8lsen] Fischer and 13 other WHO experts spent 27 days in China earlier this year in an attempt to investigate the origins of the pandemic that has killed 2.38 million people around the world. Some of the experts who were on the trip told the Times that it was clear Chinese scientists did not take kindly to the WHO team\u2019s constant questions and requests for raw data,\u201d the Daily Wire said. Fischer called the endeavor \u201chighly geopolitical\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO investigators told the NYT that \u201cdisagreements over patient records and other issues were so tense that they sometimes erupted into shouts among the typically mild-mannered scientists on both sides\u201d and the \u201cWHO scientists were frustrated by the Chinese government\u2019s reluctance to explain how they had gathered the data, according to interviews with team members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end,\u201d the NYT noted, the WHO\u2019s scientists \u201csought compromise, praising the Chinese government\u2019s transparency, but pushing for more research about the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO has faced criticism before for adopting Chinese assessments of COVID-19, apparently without question. In January of last year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/who-no-transmission-coronavirus-tweet-was-to-appease-china-guardian-2020-4\">WHO claimed, on Twitter<\/a>, that the coronavirus did not spread from person to person, echoing Chinese statements on the matter. Reporters from The Guardian later discovered that the WHO posted the tweet \u201cbecause an official worried that a WHO expert was issuing strong warnings that deviated from China\u2019s messaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO told The Guardian, at the time, that it was just trying to \u201cbalance out\u201d the \u201cscience\u201d on COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>China has insisted that the coronavirus traveled to Wuhan from abroad, and reiterated that position in a statement Sunday, \u201cfiring back\u201d at the Biden White House, per Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy fired back with a strongly-worded statement, saying the United States had damaged multilateral cooperation and the WHO in recent years, and should not be \u2018pointing fingers\u2019 at China and other countries that supported the WHO during the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d the outlet said. \u201cChina welcomed the U.S. decision to reengage with the WHO, but Washington should hold itself to the \u2018highest standards\u2019 instead of taking aim at other countries, the spokesperson said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden White House reportedly has \u201cdeep concerns\u201d over a report from the World Health Organization that appeared to gloss over the Chinese origins of the novel coronavirus \u2014 and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893406,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,5241,3653,3972,3819,3765],"class_list":["post-129812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-concerns","tag-house","tag-over","tag-report","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}