A “senior European politician,” has said that World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, confided to him in private that he believes Covid-19 was the result of a catastrophic accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. In public, the WHO big shot was more discrete, saying in a June 14, 2022, press conference, “We do not yet have the answers as to where it came from or how it entered the human population. Understanding the origins of the virus is very important scientifically to prevent future epidemics and pandemics. But morally, we also owe it to all those who have suffered and died and their families. The longer it takes, the harder it becomes. We need to speed up and act with a sense of urgency. All hypotheses must remain on the table until we have evidence that enables us to rule certain hypotheses in or out. This makes it all the more urgent that this scientific work be kept separate from politics. The way to prevent politicization is for countries to share data and samples with transparency and without interference from any government. The only way this scientific work can progress successfully is with full collaboration from all countries, including China, where the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 were reported.”
However, from the initial outbreak, China has not been transparent, and moved to lockdown its population, but still permitted moment of people out of China. The suspicious mind would count this as a strategy of “spreading the misery,” so to speak, even if the release of SARS-CoV-2 was accidental. In late 2020 WHO established a scientific advisory group to investigate the origin of SARS-CoV-2, which on the basis of no evidence dismissed the lab leak hypothesis. It was later revealed how compromised this group was. Likewise for a scientific paper at the time which did the same dismissal, with compromised authors as well. All this could be seen as letting communist China of the hook, and one leading scientist said then that the lab leak hypothesis would be damaging to China and so should not be pursued! Criticism of the first WHO report led to a second investigation which concluded that a lab leak was unlikely, and that the virus was species-jumper. However, there was no decisive proof offered for this, and no-one has identified the organisms involved, with speculation varying.