{"id":576856,"date":"2021-06-29T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576856"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:05:21","slug":"lack-of-chinese-transparency-was-ultimate-source-of-death-in-pandemic-expert-tells-house-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lack-of-chinese-transparency-was-ultimate-source-of-death-in-pandemic-expert-tells-house-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lack Of Chinese Transparency\u2019 Was Ultimate \u2018Source Of Death\u2019 In Pandemic, Expert Tells House Republicans"},"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\">30<\/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%2Flack-of-chinese-transparency-was-ultimate-source-of-death-in-pandemic-expert-tells-house-republicans%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=576856&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\/Capture-7-e1624993990314.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An expert panel told Coronavirus Committee Republicans that hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved if China acted transparently earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it was laboratory derived or natural, if we would\u2019ve had open access the moment it started spreading, we could\u2019ve saved lives,\u201d Adm. Brett Giroir told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis during the Tuesday panel. \u201cIf we could\u2019ve known about asymptomatic transmission two months beforehand, it could\u2019ve saved hundreds of thousands of lives,\u201d Giroir said.<\/p>\n<p>Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration, was one of four experts on a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/steve-scalise-james-comer-expert-witness-forum-origins-covid-19-anthony-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">panel convened by the Coronavirus Committee<\/a> to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/robert-redfield-lab-leak-world-health-organization-china-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">origin of the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>. No Democratic members of the committee attended the hearing, and both NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly turned down invites to the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get to the ultimate source of death, as CNN would say in the autopsy, it was a lack of Chinese transparency early on. If we could\u2019ve had that, sure people would\u2019ve died, we would have still had it throughout, but I think we could have had interventions much more timely,\u201d Giroir added.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined on the panel by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/former-state-dept-investigator-david-asher-china-knows-covid-origins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. David Asher<\/a>, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Dr. Richard Muller, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California Berkeley and Dr. Steven Quay, founder of Atossa Therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we would\u2019ve known earlier and there wasn\u2019t a cover-up, we could\u2019ve saved lives \u2026 if we knew it was lab-derived and they were transparent \u2026 that could\u2019ve been a major, major important finding for us to know early,\u201d Giroir went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>The other experts on the panel were asked by Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan if they agreed that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/coronavirus-cases-december-2019-nih-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earlier knowledge<\/a> could\u2019ve saved lives. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/soviet-union-anthrax-lab-leak-china-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: American Scientists Helped Cover Up A Lab-Leak For Communists Before \u2014 In The Soviet Union)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, as I said earlier, if I had the virus in 72 hours I could have predicted all of the transmission and asymptomatic \u2026 from the virus itself, so, yeah,\u201d Quay said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no scientific expertise on this. I have my own personal opinion, but I defer to Dr. Quay,\u201d Muller said.<\/p>\n<p>These individuals aren\u2019t the only ones to make similar claims. A <a href=\"https:\/\/ncdp.columbia.edu\/custom-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Avoidable-COVID-19-Deaths-US-NCDP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 2020 study<\/a> from Columbia University determined that by intervening two weeks earlier with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/poll-gallup-coronavirus-covid-19-republicans-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus restrictions<\/a>, as many as 84% of deaths in the first COVID-19 wave to hit the U.S. could have been prevented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert panel told Coronavirus Committee Republicans that hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved if China acted transparently earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201cWhether it was laboratory derived &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313690,"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\/Capture-7-e1624993990314.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Lack Of Chinese Transparency\u2019 Was Ultimate \u2018Source Of Death\u2019 In Pandemic, Expert Tells House Republicans","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576856","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\/Capture-7-e1624993990314.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Lack Of Chinese Transparency\u2019 Was Ultimate \u2018Source Of Death\u2019 In Pandemic, Expert Tells House Republicans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576856","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=576856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}