{"id":1522989,"date":"2022-06-19T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1522989"},"modified":"2022-06-19T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:20:09","slug":"world-health-organization-head-now-privately-blames-chinese-lab-for-coronavirus-pandemic-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-health-organization-head-now-privately-blames-chinese-lab-for-coronavirus-pandemic-report\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization Head Now \u2018Privately\u2019 Blames Chinese Lab For Coronavirus Pandemic: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fworld-health-organization-head-now-privately-blames-chinese-lab-for-coronavirus-pandemic-report%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=1522989&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--><p>The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) reportedly believes that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory back in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Mail, a British newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailplus.co.uk\/edition\/news\/coronavirus\/193248\/who-boss-secretly-blames-china-lab-for-covid-leak\">reported<\/a> that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus \u201cprivately believes the Covid pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory,\u201d according to a top government official. \u201cWhile publicly the group maintains that \u2018all hypotheses remain on the table\u2019 about the origins of Covid, the source said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread in late 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tedros recently told member nations that the WHO does \u201cnot yet have the answers as to where it came from or how it entered the human population\u201d and that it was \u201cmorally\u201d important to determine its origin. Tedros said countries, including China, needed to share data and that the WHO needed \u201ctransparency and without interference from any government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A WHO spokesperson said: \u201cDr. Tedros has been consistently saying that all hypothesis remain on the table as scientists pursue their work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic, which has caused trillions of dollars in damage to the global economy and killed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-61327778\">estimated<\/a> 15 million people, broke out sometime in late 2019. However, an exact timeline of events has never been established due to China resisting international pressure for an investigation inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology \u2014 China\u2019s only Biosafety level-4 laboratory \u2014 were hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms consistent with COVID-19, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that was released last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 \u2018with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,\u2019\u201d The Wall Street Journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228\">reported<\/a>. \u201cNovember 2019 is roughly when many epidemiologists and virologists believe SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic, first began circulating around the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where Beijing says that the first confirmed case was a man who fell ill on Dec. 8, 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A panel of experts told a congressional subcommittee last year that they believed that the pandemic originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/experts-tell-u-s-lawmakers-its-highly-likely-covid-19-originated-in-wuhan-lab\">reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<p><em>All four of the experts \u2014 which included Dr. David Asher, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Dr. Richard Muller, emeritus professor of physics at the University of California Berkeley and Dr. Steven Quay, founder of Atossa Therapeutics \u2014 answered \u201cyes\u201d when asked if the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 started in Wuhan lab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-report-leaked-docs-prove-china-underreported-pandemic-numbers-hid-previously-unreported-number\">reported<\/a>, U.S. officials have indicated that they believe that China\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says\">\u201cintentionally\u201d<\/a>\u00a0underreported their true numbers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-official-gives-fox-news-stunning-estimate-on-chinas-real-coronavius-numbers\">\u201cby at least a factor of 50.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0British officials reportedly told Prime Minister Boris Johnson early in the pandemic that China could have underreported their numbers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/british-scientific-advisers-claim-chinas-outbreak-could-be-15-to-40-times-worse-than-reported-report-says\">\u201cby a factor of 15 to 40 times.\u201d<\/a> The Washington Post reported in April 2020 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000\">\u201cevidence\u201d<\/a> coming out of Wuhan suggested that the real death count was over 40,000, which comes as China still claims that it only has a little over 4,600 deaths total nationwide. A conservative estimate in April 2020 from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)\u2014which gave China every benefit of the doubt when coming up with their calculations, and then some\u2014suggested that China severely and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aei-releases-conservative-estimate-of-chinas-true-outbreak-numbers-its-staggering\">\u201cdeliberately\u201d<\/a>\u00a0underreported their numbers and that China\u2019s true numbers at the time had to be at least 2.9 million infections with well over 100,000 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) reportedly believes that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory back in late 2019. The Mail, a British newspaper, reported that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus \u201cprivately believes the Covid pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory,\u201d according to a top government official. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1522998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522989","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}