{"id":463477,"date":"2021-05-01T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=463477"},"modified":"2021-05-01T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:50:32","slug":"washington-post-claimed-suggestions-of-coronavirus-originating-in-chinese-lab-were-debunked-now-it-wants-investigation-into-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-claimed-suggestions-of-coronavirus-originating-in-chinese-lab-were-debunked-now-it-wants-investigation-into-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Claimed Suggestions Of Coronavirus Originating In Chinese Lab Were \u2018Debunked,\u2019 Now It Wants Investigation Into Matter"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fwashington-post-claimed-suggestions-of-coronavirus-originating-in-chinese-lab-were-debunked-now-it-wants-investigation-into-matter%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=463477&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:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-175646326.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>When Donald Trump was president and Republicans were questioning the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, left-wing media outlets like The Washington Post couldn\u2019t call them liars fast enough. Back then, the Post insisted that only a stupid conspiracy theorist would suggest or question whether the coronavirus <em>may<\/em> have come from a lab in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, the Post\u2019s Editorial Board is saying that we need to fully investigate whether it was possible that the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab.<\/p>\n<p>On February 17, 2020, the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/16\/tom-cotton-coronavirus-conspiracy\/\">rushed to insist<\/a> that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was pushing a \u201ccoronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.\u201d As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-claims-tom-cotton-coronavirus-claims-debunked-fail-to-debunk-what-he-actually-said\">reported<\/a> at the time, the Post failed to \u201cdebunk\u201d what Cotton actually said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know where it originated, and we have to get to the bottom of that,\u201d Cotton said that week during an interview on Fox News. \u201cWe also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China\u2019s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we don\u2019t have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China\u2019s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says,\u201d Cotton also said. \u201cAnd China right now is not giving any evidence on that question at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post, however, fact-checked the claim that the coronavirus was \u201cman-made,\u201d something Cotton never suggested. Even the suggestion that one would question whether the coronavirus came from a Chinese lab was treated as ridiculous, yet on Friday, the Post\u2019s Editorial Board said such an investigation should take place, following questions raised by the World Health Organization\u2019s stunted attempts to investigate the origins of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigating team said the least likely pathway was an inadvertent leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, where the outbreak first exploded. The leak hypothesis was not investigated, although it is known that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was carrying out risky \u2018gain of function\u2019 experiments on bat coronaviruses, which involve modifying viral genomes to give them new properties, including the ability to infect lung cells of laboratory mice that had been genetically changed to respond as human respiratory cells would,\u201d the Editorial Board wrote. \u201cChina has strenuously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/e380bb780cb9\/01042021-china-mfa-press-conference-5243898?e=8afb55b36b\">denied\u00a0<\/a>that a leak came from the lab, calling it a \u2018farce,\u2019 and pointing instead to frozen food packaging from abroad. Whether China likes it or not, a serious investigation must encompass zoonotic spillover, the possibility of a laboratory leak and any other possibility backed by evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post further stated that scientists \u201ccorrectly\u201d called for a \u201cfull scientific and forensic investigation into all possible origins\u201d of the virus, something the outlet ridiculed Cotton for last year.<\/p>\n<p>Back when Cotton was calling for more information regarding the possible origins of the virus, the WHO and China weren\u2019t forthcoming with information. Nothing has changed, yet the Post no longer needs to claim Republicans are conspiracy theorists in order to ensure Trump didn\u2019t win re-election.<\/p>\n<p><em>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<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Donald Trump was president and Republicans were questioning the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, left-wing media outlets like The Washington Post couldn\u2019t call them liars fast enough. Back then, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277139,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-175646326.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Washington Post Claimed Suggestions Of Coronavirus Originating In Chinese Lab Were \u2018Debunked,\u2019 Now It Wants Investigation Into Matter","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-175646326.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Washington Post Claimed Suggestions Of Coronavirus Originating In Chinese Lab Were \u2018Debunked,\u2019 Now It Wants Investigation Into Matter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463477","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=463477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}