China’s top epidemiologist on Wednesday dismissed doubts over the validity of the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) new report on the origins of the Chinese coronavirus as “blasphemy.” “[T]he report was compiled by scientists who carried out a real investigation in Wuhan,
Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adviser to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), on Monday joined the growing number of scientists and political leaders around the world who questioned the credibility of W.H.O.’s report on the origins of the coronavirus.
An editorial in the Chinese government-run propaganda publication Global Times condemned World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday after Tedros urged a more thorough investigation into the theory the Chinese coronavirus escaped from a laboratory.
On the same day the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) finally released its report into the origins of coronavirus and posited the theory China may not be responsible, the organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus revived a claim it could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan as all options remain open.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that the U.S. should partner with other nations to threaten to pull funding from the World Health Organization unless there is a full, independent investigation of
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” World Health Organization adviser Jamie Metzl stated that while it is possible that the coronavirus outbreak started in the wild and then jumped to humans, there is no evidence
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said a W.H.O. investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, published in a report on Tuesday, was not “extensive enough.”
The leaders of 23 nations joined the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday to endorse a proposed international “pandemic treaty” that would establish rules for information sharing and “universal and equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics,” as Reuters put it.
The long-awaited World Health Organization (W.H.O.) report on the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus was released on Tuesday, after canceling the release of an interim report in early March. The final report is lengthy but inconclusive, laying out numerous theories for the origin of the virus but failing to conclusively prove or disprove any of them. Most intriguingly, the authors circle around the shortage of hard evidence for zoonotic transmission – animals to human – even though they insist it is the most likely scenario.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro lost access to his Facebook page for a month, the BBC reported Sunday, for repeatedly promoting unproven Chinese coronavirus cures and violating the social media company’s posting standards.
A report compiled by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) in collaboration with China on the origins of coronavirus claims it leapt from bats to humans through another animal and not via a laboratory leak in the city of Wuhan, a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press claims.
During an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” World Health Organization (WHO) member Dr. Peter Daszak shot down the theory of an accidental laboratory leak being behind COVID-19’s origination.
A study by researchers at the University of California San Diego found it was “highly probable” that Chinese coronavirus was circulating in Hubei province, China, as early as October 2019, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday.
The vast majority of Americans plan to continue to wear masks as vaccine rollout continues across the United States, an Axios/Ipsos survey released Tuesday revealed.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Wednesday published an expose on the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) “investigation” of the origins of the coronavirus.
Social media giant Facebook has announced that it will soon be labeling all posts discussing coronavirus vaccinations with links to official information about COVID-19 from organizations like the World Health Organization.
At a press briefing on Wednesday, World Health Organization (WHO) investigator Peter Daszak said he expected the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic would be determined “fairly soon, within the next few years.”
President Joe Biden marked his 5oth day in office on March 10, keeping his promise of establishing a progressive body of government while repealing critical components of former President Trump’s “America First” agenda.
Countries should not require travelers to present so-called “vaccine passports” for international travel during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, as such a demand would be unfair to nations with limited vaccination capabilities, a senior World Health Organization (W.H.O.) official said Monday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday attacked a group of 26 scientists who published a letter condemning the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the Chinese Communist Party for making a true scientific investigation into the origins of the Chinese coronavirus impossible.
The world still has no idea where and when the coronavirus pandemic began, according to scientists behind an open letter published Thurday calling for yet another World Health Organization (W.H.O.) investigation into the deadly pandemic.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Thursday morning reported the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is scrapping the interim report from a team of investigators who visited Wuhan, China, in early February, under pressure from scientists who said the Chinese government withheld too much data from the investigating team, necessitating a new and more exhaustive investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.
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The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) concluded Chinese officials did “little” to investigate the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus and were uncooperative with international investigators during the first eight months of the pandemic, according to an internal document written in August which the UK Guardian made public on Tuesday.
The recently installed head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said that it will be “in the interest” of the United Kingdom and other wealthy nations to donate vaccines to developing countries now rather than inoculating their own people.
President Joe Biden on Friday rejected the “America First” policies that started no wars and brought about Middle East peace agreements, objectives that had not been achieved for decades under either political party.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this week he would repeat his call for China to release raw data on the early spread of the Wuhan coronavirus during the G-7 virtual summit.
The president delivered his first major foreign policy speech virtually from the White House to the Munich Security Conference on Friday. Biden said he welcomed competition from China, asserting trust in the global alliance led by the United States.
Dr. Robin Nandy, chief of immunization at the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), said Wednesday that wealthy nations should donate coronavirus vaccines to poor countries before they have finished vaccinating their own populations.
South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Monday issued a recommendation against the use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine by people over the age of 65.
Chinese state media on Sunday gleefully quoted members of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) defending China from their own colleagues’ allegations that Beijing withheld important source data from investigators researching the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan.
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More leaks emerged Friday from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) team sent to investigate the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. According to the Wall Street Journal, some of the W.H.O. investigators had “heated exchanges” with Chinese officials who refused to share data that could help pinpoint the origins of the pandemic.
The Biden administration publicly affirmed its desire to embrace the United Nations and all its causes Thursday as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had their first call since the U.S. rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and the World Health Organization.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated that China’s military “ordered scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to experiment with coronaviruses” and some of these “were 96.2% genetically
Biden announced the creation of a task force to assess the U.S. military’s policies, programs, and processes on China-related matters.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” World Health Organization adviser Jamie Metzl criticized the organization’s investigation into the origins of the coronavirus for not taking a serious enough look at the possibility of an accidental lab
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Tuesday that its investigation into the origin of the Chinese coronavirus in its home city, the central metropolis of Wuhan, yielded no significant evidence – an unsurprising conclusion given that Chinese officials admitted to destroying early virus samples and other critical evidence last year.
It is “extremely unlikely” the coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, World Health Organization (W.H.O.) investigators said Tuesday as they wrapped up their visit to the country’s central Hubei province.
China’s Ambassador to America Cui Tiankai repeated an increasingly vocal demand out of Beijing on Sunday for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to treat the United States as a potential origin location for the Chinese coronavirus, despite no scientific evidence suggesting this is possible.
