Biden Administration Has ‘Deep Concerns’ About WHO’s COVID-19 Probe

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 02/14/21 | News Source: Axios

President Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement on Saturday that the administration is concerned by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) probe into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Why it matters: Sullivan said the administration fears the Chinese government may have intervened or altered the findings of the investigation.

Context: On the first day of his administration, Biden acted to return the U.S. to the WHO. The Trump administration had started a withdrawal from the organization in July 2020.

• WHO teams last month conducted the investigation in Wuhan, China, where the virus first emerged.
• The investigation had been agreed to last May, but it was delayed after Chinese officials withheld authorization to allow the international team’s scheduled visit.
• The delay drew a rare rebuke from WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The WHO team concluded that it’s “extremely unlikely” the virus came from a laboratory accident, and that it most likely jumped to humans via an intermediate species.

Read more at Axios.