China refusal to support WHO COVID origins probe accelerated Biden announcement on US investigation: official

China's refusal to support the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of COVID-19 spurred the Biden administration to accelerate the declassification of U.S. intelligence and the release of President Biden's statement revealing that officials are coalescing around "two likely scenarios" that led to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News has learned. 

The official told Fox News that the president, at the time, took the "rare step" to request the declassification of an item out of the PDB to share publicly, saying Biden was seeking to be transparent with the information U.S. officials have to date, but also felt it was in the public interest.  But as the declassification of the information was underway, China announced Tuesday during a meeting of the World Health Assembly, that it would not participate or support a second phase of the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19.