<p>A World Health Organization advisory board member said Monday that China even now continues to operate a &#8220;massive cover-up&#8221; on the origins and spread of the coronavirus that caused the global pandemic.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Chinese have engaged in a massive cover-up that is going on until this day, involving destroying samples, hiding records, placing a universal gag order on Chinese scientists and imprisoning Chinese citizen journalists asking the most basic questions,&#8221; Jamie Metzl <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chinas-massive-cover-up-on-covid-still-happening-who-advisory-board-member">said</a> Monday on Fox News.</p>
<p>&#8220;The more that China stonewalls, the more suspicious that it looks,&#8221; Metzl added. &#8220;We can&#8217;t give China a veto over whether or not we investigate the world&#8217;s worst pandemic in a century and then do everything we can to make everybody safe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Investigators are probing whether the coronavirus could have been leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Meanwhile, China is reportedly <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a0badd5d-4d88-4a3b-b019-61c6d8275caa">planning</a> on launching 25 to 30 biosafety level three labs and one biosafety level four lab, the kind operated by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, over the next five years.</p>
<p>The idea that the virus could have escaped from a lab was largely dismissed last year as a conspiracy as the pandemic tightened its grip on the U.S., but the theory has been revived in recent weeks after a U.S. intelligence report <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228?mod=hp_lead_pos3">found</a> that several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms that resembled COVID-19 symptoms. China previously told the World Health Organization that the first person with symptoms similar to COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan the next month on December 8, 2019.</p>
<p>China is <a href="https://www.ghsindex.org/country/china/">ranked</a> substantially less prepared than the U.S. on biosecurity by the Global Health Security Index.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a reason why after a plane crashes, we do everything possible to understand what happened,&#8221; Metzl said. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t learn those lessons, there are other planes that are in the air. For all we know, the next pandemic is just around the corner and if we don&#8217;t understand and fix our biggest problems, we&#8217;re going to be at unnecessary risk. We have to get to the bottom of this, which means asking that tough questions and following the data wherever it leads.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) last week called the origins of the coronavirus the “worst cover-up in human history,” saying it is “more likely than not” that the pathogen’s spread was caused by a lab accident.</p>
<p>“You know, I do think it’s more likely than not it emerged out of the lab. Most likely accidentally,” McCaul <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rep-mike-mccaul-calls-coronavirus-origin-worst-cover-up-in-human-history">said</a>. “This is the worst cover-up in human history that we’ve seen, resulting in 3.5 million deaths, creating an economic devastation around the globe.”</p>
<p>House Republicans have called for a congressional probe into the origins of the virus, and some Democrats have joined them in urging for an investigation.</p>
<p>In January, the WHO delivered a rare rebuke to China, saying the country had refused to allow a team of scientists investigating the origins of the virus to enter the country.</p>

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