Fox News has learned today that the Trump administration not only believes the coronavirus originated in a virology lab in Wuhan, but that the World Health Organization (WHO) helped them cover it up from the very beginning:
Here’s more from Fox News:
There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China’s effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China’s government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.
This may be the “costliest government coverup of all time,” one of the sources said.
The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that “patient zero” worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.
They way John Roberts described the infection leak in his question to Trump was that an intern at the lab, patient zero, got infected and then infected her boyfriend. She then visited the wet market in Wuhan where it began to spread.
Bret Baier points out in the video above that “China moved quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but did not stop international flights from Wuhan.”
He also reported that these “sources tell Fox News the World Health Organization (WHO) was complicit from the beginning in helping China cover its tracks.”
Trump was asked about this new reporting today but wouldn’t confirm anything, saying they are continuing to investigate:
John Roberts: Sources are telling Fox the U.S. government has high confidence coronavirus emanated from a virology lab in Wuhan… an intern was infected, who infected her boyfriend… Does that correspond with what you have heard?
TRUMP: More and more, we're hearing the story. pic.twitter.com/I8eAvoZDdQ
— August Takala (@RudyTakala) April 15, 2020
It would be bad enough for China to try and cover up their own mess. But if does turn out that WHO really was complicit in trying to help them cover it up (which might be why they ignored Taiwan’s warnings), that would be an international bombshell that should cause a lot of heads to roll at the WHO.