{"id":556486,"date":"2021-06-08T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556486"},"modified":"2021-06-08T07:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:36:04","slug":"who-advisory-board-member-says-china-still-engaged-in-massive-cover-up-involving-destroying-samples-silencing-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-advisory-board-member-says-china-still-engaged-in-massive-cover-up-involving-destroying-samples-silencing-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Advisory Board Member Says China Still Engaged In \u2018Massive Cover-Up\u2019 Involving Destroying Samples, Silencing Scientists"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwho-advisory-board-member-says-china-still-engaged-in-massive-cover-up-involving-destroying-samples-silencing-scientists%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=556486&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\/06\/GettyImages-1230938483.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A World Health Organization advisory board member said Monday that China even now continues to operate a \u201cmassive cover-up\u201d on the origins and spread of the coronavirus that caused the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese have engaged in a massive cover-up that is going on until this day, involving destroying samples, hiding records, placing a universal gag order on Chinese scientists and imprisoning Chinese citizen journalists asking the most basic questions,\u201d Jamie Metzl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/chinas-massive-cover-up-on-covid-still-happening-who-advisory-board-member\">said<\/a> Monday on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more that China stonewalls, the more suspicious that it looks,\u201d Metzl added. \u201cWe can\u2019t give China a veto over whether or not we investigate the world\u2019s worst pandemic in a century and then do everything we can to make everybody safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are probing whether the coronavirus could have been leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.\u00a0Meanwhile, China is reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a0badd5d-4d88-4a3b-b019-61c6d8275caa\">planning<\/a> on launching 25 to 30 biosafety level three labs and one biosafety level four lab, the kind operated by the\u00a0Wuhan Institute of Virology, over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the virus could have escaped from a lab was largely dismissed last year as a conspiracy as the pandemic tightened its grip on the U.S., but the theory has been revived in recent weeks after a\u00a0U.S. intelligence report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228?mod=hp_lead_pos3\">found<\/a>\u00a0that several researchers at China\u2019s Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms that resembled COVID-19 symptoms. China previously told the World Health Organization that the first person with symptoms similar to COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan the next month on December 8, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>China is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghsindex.org\/country\/china\/\">ranked<\/a> substantially less prepared than the U.S. on biosecurity by the Global Health Security Index.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a reason why after a plane crashes, we do everything possible to understand what happened,\u201d Metzl said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t learn those lessons, there are other planes that are in the air. For all we know, the next pandemic is just around the corner and if we don\u2019t understand and fix our biggest problems, we\u2019re going to be at unnecessary risk. We have to get to the bottom of this, which means asking that tough questions and following the data wherever it leads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) last week\u00a0called the origins of the coronavirus the\u00a0\u201cworst cover-up in human history,\u201d saying it is \u201cmore likely than not\u201d that the pathogen\u2019s spread was caused by a lab accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I do think it\u2019s more likely than not it emerged out of the lab. Most likely accidentally,\u201d McCaul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rep-mike-mccaul-calls-coronavirus-origin-worst-cover-up-in-human-history\">said<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThis is the worst cover-up in human history that we\u2019ve seen, resulting in 3.5 million deaths, creating an economic devastation around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have called for a congressional probe into the origins of the virus, and some Democrats have joined them in urging for an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the WHO delivered a rare rebuke to China, saying the country had refused to allow a team of scientists investigating the origins of the virus to enter the country.<\/p>\n<p><i>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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A World Health Organization advisory board member said Monday that China even now continues to operate a \u201cmassive cover-up\u201d on the origins and spread of the coronavirus that caused the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279575,"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\/06\/GettyImages-1230938483.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WHO Advisory Board Member Says China Still Engaged In \u2018Massive Cover-Up\u2019 Involving Destroying Samples, Silencing Scientists","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1230938483.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WHO Advisory Board Member Says China Still Engaged In \u2018Massive Cover-Up\u2019 Involving Destroying Samples, Silencing Scientists","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556486","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=556486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}