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Washington Post (Finally) Demands Answers on Covid Origins
The WHO has been waiting a year for China to grant WHO scientists access to Wuhan. They are still waiting.
As the U.S. and the world continues to grapple with COVID-19, the attention of the worldwide scientific community has increasingly turned toward the origins of 2020’s terrible pandemic.
As the virus has now likely mutated, this mission has a new sense of urgency. The need to find the origins of this novel coronavirus has become less about finger pointing and more about the race to save lives. Unfortunately, in politics, fact-finding and finger pointing are often the same thing; difficult to do one without the other.
In disentangling the two, media outlets, including the Washington Post are grappling with a conflicting sets of facts.
On one hand, mainstream media outlets have been dismissing for months the possibility that COVID-19 originated, not from a wet market in Wuhan, but from a nearby virology lab, as a conspiracy theory.
On the other hand, JAPANForward reported in March what has been an open secret in the national security community for years: “Biological Weapons the Focus of China’s Military Research in the Last 20 Years.”
To say nothing of U.S. State Department cables sent in 2018 which warned that…