Republican Sen. Ted Cruz called the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the origins of the coronavirus “shameful” for mimicking the narrative of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that the disease didn’t originate from a Wuhan laboratory.
“At the outset of the pandemic, the WHO acted as a propagandist for communist China, echoing the CCP’s lies,” the Texas senator tweeted on Wednesday, Feb. 10. “Now, the WHO concludes that the virus did not accidentally escape from a Wuhan government lab because … the CCP told them it didn’t.”
Peter Embarek, a Danish scientist who led the WHO fact-finding mission in China, earlier dismissed the claim that the virus may have leaked from a local virology lab in Wuhan as “extremely unlikely.” Read more…
