The World Health Organization’s report on Covid-19’s origins dances around the likely timing of the first outbreak.
Tim Raub April 2, 2021
The World Health Organization released its joint report on the origins of Covid-19 on Tuesday, but historians of science will study it for decades—if for no other reason than the obvious discomfort of its 34-author team. Even before the report’s publication, the origins of the virus were a matter of dispute among current and former political and public health figures. In time, these controversies will be lost to history. What will remain is the truth: the original Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan occurred well before the disease rose to international awareness and lockdowns began—most likely in October 2019.
Everyone understands that the lit fuse of Covid-19 was smoldering for
some time before governments confronted a blazing global epidemic. Yet
the WHO joint report inferentially rejects, then resurrects by caveat,
the possibility of an October origin dozens of times. On page 47, for
example, the report describes how, in January of this year, Chinese
Center for Disease Control and Prevention representatives asked 233
Wuhan health institutions to survey potential early cases of Covid-19 in
their records from December 2019. But when the joint team established
its work plan later that month, “it was agreed . . . to modify and
extend the period for case searching to . . . between 1 October and 10
December 2019.”........To Read More....
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