{"id":538759,"date":"2021-05-24T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538759"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:20:49","slug":"psaki-snaps-at-reporter-asking-about-origin-of-covid-19-despite-cdc-director-saying-virus-could-have-emerged-from-chinese-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-snaps-at-reporter-asking-about-origin-of-covid-19-despite-cdc-director-saying-virus-could-have-emerged-from-chinese-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Snaps At Reporter Asking About Origin Of COVID-19, Despite CDC Director Saying Virus Could Have Emerged From Chinese Lab"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fpsaki-snaps-at-reporter-asking-about-origin-of-covid-19-despite-cdc-director-saying-virus-could-have-emerged-from-chinese-lab%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=538759&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\/05\/psaki-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Jen Psaki, President Joe Biden\u2019s press secretary, on Monday bristled when a reporter pressed her for answers on whether the White House is doing enough to learn the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy asked the spokeswoman about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> article that cited a U.S. intelligence report saying three researchers from China\u2019s Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019, a month before China officially reported its first case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy isn\u2019t President Biden pushing for more access, more information to get to the bottom of exactly what happened?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are,\u201d Psaki said, \u201cand we have repeatedly called for the [World Health Organization] to support an expert-driven, evaluation of the pandemic\u2019s origins that is free from interference or politicization. During that first phase of the investigation, there was not access to data, there was not information provided,\u201d she said. \u201cNow we\u2019re hopeful that WHO can move into a more transparent, independent phase two investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy followed up, asking: \u201cBut with 589,920 dead Americans, at what point does President Biden say we don\u2019t want to wait for the WHO effort, we don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, this needs to be an American-led effort to get to the bottom of what happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reporter pointed out that Biden \u201ctalks all the time about how he\u2019s known President Xi for a long time, so why can\u2019t he just call and ask him that information?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki lost her cool and tried to dress down Doocy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019re misunderstanding how this process actually works,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we can\u2019t do, and what I would caution anyone doing, is leaping ahead of an actual international process. We don\u2019t have enough data and information to jump to a conclusion at this point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do share everyone in this country is a desire to know how this started, where it started and prevent it from ever happening again,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s something we all share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is \u201cpossible\u201d the virus has a \u201clab-based origin.\u201d At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky how she thinks the pandemic began. \u201cI don\u2019t believe I\u2019ve seen enough data, individual data for me to be able to comment on that,\u201d Walensky said.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy then asked about the \u201cpossibilities\u201d on where the virus originated: \u201cCertainly the possibilities of, that most coronaviruses that we know of are of origin from, that have infected the population \u2014 SARS CoV-1, MERS \u2014 generally come from an animal origin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre there any other possibilities?\u201d Kennedy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly a lab-based origin is one possibility,\u201d Walensky said.<\/p>\n<p>Also last week, Republican lawmakers, headed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who is the top Republican on the committee, said in a report obtained by Fox News that China has not cooperated with efforts to find out where the virus originated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational efforts to discover the true source of the virus, however, have been stymied by a lack of cooperation from the People\u2019s Republic of China,\u201d \u200bthey wrote\u200b in the report\u200b.&nbsp;\u201cNevertheless, significant circumstantial evidence raises serious concerns that the COVID-19 outbreak may have been a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The report also said the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s (PRC) military had \u201cinvolvement\u201d in the lab. The report rejected the long-reported claim that the virus came from bats. \u201cBy contrast, little circumstantial evidence has emerged to support the PRC\u2019s claim that COVID-19 was a natural occurrence, having jumped from some other species to human,\u201d \u200bthe lawmakers wrote.<\/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. 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