{"id":600185,"date":"2021-07-22T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600185"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:37:23","slug":"china-refuses-to-cooperate-with-w-h-o-probe-into-lab-leak-theory-its-against-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-refuses-to-cooperate-with-w-h-o-probe-into-lab-leak-theory-its-against-science\/","title":{"rendered":"China Refuses To Cooperate With W.H.O. Probe Into Lab Leak Theory: \u2018It\u2019s Against Science\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fchina-refuses-to-cooperate-with-w-h-o-probe-into-lab-leak-theory-its-against-science%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=600185&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\/07\/XJ-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Communist China is refusing to cooperate with the second phase of an investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 an investigation that is expected to focus on the possibility that the pandemic originated in a Chinese lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some aspects, the WHO\u2019s plan for next phase of investigation of the coronavirus origin doesn\u2019t respect common sense, and it\u2019s against science,\u201d Zeng Yixin, deputy head of China\u2019s National Health Commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/22\/china\/china-who-second-origin-study-intl-hnk\/index.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible for us to accept such a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zeng added, \u201cWe hope the WHO would seriously review the considerations and suggestions made by Chinese experts and truly treat the origin tracing of the COVID-19 virus as a scientific matter, and get rid of political interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zeng claimed that \u201cno worker or researcher at the WIV got infected by coronavirus,\u201d without evidence and despite a report from The Wall Street Journal earlier this year that said three workers at the lab became ill with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 shortly before China acknowledged the first cases in the pandemic.<\/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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228\">noted<\/a>. \u201cThe disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization\u2019s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19\u2019s origins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China claims that the first confirmed case of the coronavirus came on December 8, 2019. Chinese officials have repeatedly tried to dismiss accusations that the pandemic could have originated in the Wuhan lab, which is where Chinese researchers worked on bat coronaviruses. The South China Morning Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3074991\/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in March 2020 that, according to Chinese government data observed by the publication, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 occurred on November 17, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>David Asher, the State Department\u2019s former lead investigator who oversaw the Task Force into the COVID-19 virus origin, has worked for Democrat and Republican administrations on some of \u201cthe most classified intelligence investigations\u201d for the U.S. government. Asher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/multiple-researchers-at-chinese-lab-in-wuhan-were-hospitalized-with-covid-19-like-symptoms-in-november-2019-u-s-intelligence-report\">said<\/a> that he is \u201cvery doubtful that three people in highly protected circumstances\u201d working on coronaviruses all became sick enough with influenza-like symptoms that they were hospitalized in \u201csevere conditions all in the same week, and it didn\u2019t have anything to do with the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/w-h-o-demands-audits-of-chinese-labs-admits-first-cases-didnt-come-from-huanan-wet-market\">demanding<\/a> \u201caudits\u201d be conducted of Chinese labs in the vicinity of where the first cases of COVID-19 were identified. The Washington Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/covid-wuhan-outbreak-who\/2021\/07\/15\/51e7e8a6-e2c6-11eb-88c5-4fd6382c47cb_story.html\">reported<\/a> last week that WHO, in response to questions from the newspaper, will change a joint report with China on the origins of the pandemic to \u201cclarify that the first family cluster was not linked to the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest news comes as the Biden administration now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senior-biden-officials-now-say-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory-as-possible-as-it-occurring-naturally\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledges<\/a>&nbsp;the possibility that the pandemic originated from a Chinese lab is now at least as likely as the theory that it originated in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Asher, previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biostatisticians-calculated-odds-of-coronavirus-evolving-naturally-to-be-1-in-13-billion-top-ex-pandemic-investigator-says\">told<\/a> Fox News that biostatisticians from the U.S. government calculated that the odds of the coronavirus evolving naturally to be \u201cone-in-13 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communist China is refusing to cooperate with the second phase of an investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 an investigation that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600185","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\/600185","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=600185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}