According to the “Wall Street Journal”, a Chinese researcher transmitted an almost complete sequence of the virus to the authorities in his country on December 28, 2019. But Beijing informed the WHO only on January 11.
More evidence of the Chinese authorities’ lack of transparency regarding the pandemic, if any were ever needed. According to The Wall Street JournalIt got its hands on documents obtained by an American parliamentary committee from the Ministry of Health, saying Beijing wasted precious time early in the pandemic by not sharing specific information on Covid-19.
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Almost complete structure of virus in database maintained by US government as of December 28, 2019 »A time when the government still talked about it publicly “Viral Pneumonia of Unknown Cause”. It wasn’t until January 11, two additional weeks later, that Chinese authorities shared the sequence of the virus with the WHO. The latter is not exactly the same as the Chinese explorer but it will come pretty close.for The Wall Street JournalBased on expert testimony, “These additional two weeks could prove crucial in helping the international medical community determine how Covid-19 spreads, develop medical defenses and begin development of a potential vaccine”. Virologist Jesse Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center wrote on the GitHub platform that “The immediate release of the sequence could speed up the development of a Covid-19 vaccine that has saved thousands of lives every week in the United States alone” by several weeks.
.While the researcher, contacted by the American daily, did not respond, the Chinese Embassy in the United States announced through its spokesperson that its country “Continues to refine its response based on scientific data to make Covid more targeted” And that “China’s Covid Response Policies Are Science-Based, Effective, and Consistent with National Realities”.
If this information “Don’t clarify the debate on the question of why If the covid originated from an infected animal or laboratory leak»The newspaper notes, “They suggest that the world still does not fully understand the origins of the epidemic”. For Cathy McMorris Rogers, a Republican elected to the House of Representatives, this finding proves that the US “Can’t trust any so-called ‘facts’ or data provided by the Chinese Communist Party”.
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