Who's to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic?
China's insistence that the virus passed from animals to humans is, at this point, pretty far-fetched
By Jed Babbin - - Friday, June 4, 2021
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Of the reactions to the outbreak of disease caused by the COVID-19 virus, then-president Donald Trump’s is certainly the best known and that of Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) the least.
In mid-March 2020, Mr. Trump began calling the disease the “Chinese flu,” for which he was called a racist (among other things). Two months later, when he said that there was strong evidence that the virus had been released from WIV, the media ridiculed the idea. They only did so because the idea came from him.
According to a Scientific American article published in June 2020, Dr. Shi received a call from her boss, the director of WIV, on Dec. 30, 2019 in which he directed her to drop everything and examine samples received from the nearby Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It had detected a novel coronavirus in some patients and wanted WIV to help determine what it was.
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