WHO’s inquiry into COVID-19 outbreak ‘highly chaperoned,’ says ex-NSC official

A senior fellow at the Atlantic Council called for a substantial, international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus and said the World Health Organization’s inquiry has been dreadfully inadequate.

"Everybody around the world is imagining this is some kind of full investigation," he said. "It’s not. This group of experts only saw what the Chinese government wanted them to see." Last month, Peter Daszak, a member of the WHO’s expert team that was dispatched to Wuhan to investigate the pandemic’s origins, said China granted the team full access to all sites, a claim that was immediately met with skepticism. There have been several theories on what led to Patient Zero. The most widely accepted is that there was a cross-species transmission between animal and human at a wet market in Wuhan. Other theories, which often get written off as fringe in the media, include the possibility that the virus somehow escaped the Wuhan Institute of Virology or that COVID-19 is some kind of Frankenstein bioweapon intentionally released.