Posted on 04/21/2020 6:05:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory.
“All available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or somewhere else,” WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told a Geneva news briefing. “It is probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin.”
It was not clear, Chaib added, how the virus had jumped the species barrier to humans but there had “certainly” been an intermediate animal host. “It most likely has its ecological reservoir in bats but how the virus came from bats to humans is still to be seen and discovered.”
She did not respond to a request to elaborate on whether it was possible the virus may have inadvertently escaped from a lab. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has dismissed rumours both that it synthesized the virus or allowed it to escape.
Chaib, asked about the impact of Trump’s decision last week to suspend funding to the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, said: “We are still assessing the situation about the announcement by President Trump ...and we will assess the situation and we will work with our partners to fill any gaps.”
“It is very important to continue what we are doing not only for COVID but for many, many, many, many other health programmes,” she added, referring to action against polio, HIV and malaria among other diseases.
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#OkChina
It came from eating unclean animals, plain and simple. All these other theories are hogwash.
There’s one theory that aligns pretty well with what we know.
Meaning that China has effectively hidden or destroyed any evidence to the contrary...
WHO = China Puppet Propagandist Outfit
Sooooo, it’s clearly from a lab.
“She did not respond to a request to elaborate on whether it was possible the virus may have inadvertently escaped from a lab.”
Correct, she did not. All she did is make an assertion that a layman would find nearly impossible to verify, one that also misses the point.
Bill’s Gates’ puppet
Meet the world’s most powerful doctor: Bill Gates
By NATALIE HUET AND CARMEN PAUN 5/4/17, 12:00 PM CET Updated 5/8/17, 11:52 AM CET
https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-gates-who-most-powerful-doctor/
Some billionaires are satisfied with buying themselves an island. Bill Gates got a United Nations health agency in Geneva.
Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second biggest donor, second only to the United States and just above the United Kingdom. This largesse gives him outsized influence over its agenda, one that could grow as the U.S. and the U.K. threaten to cut funding if the agency doesn’t make a better investment case.
The result, say his critics, is that Gates’ priorities have become the WHO’s....
In January, 30 health advocacy groups penned an open letter to WHO’s executive board protesting against making the Gates Foundation an official partner of the agency because its revenue comes from investments in companies that are at odds with public health goals, such as Coca-Cola...
Gates’ influence over the WHO was called into question once again during the race to succeed Chan as its director general.
The final three candidates include Sania Nishtar, a cardiologist from Pakistan who has pledged to take the agency “back to its former glory”; David Nabarro, a British physician and former U.N. special envoy for Ebola; and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has served as health minister and foreign minister in the Ethiopian government.
...Last year, a French diplomat suggested that Gates also supports Tedros, having funded health programs in his country when he was health minister. Several foundation officials have denied this, saying that the foundation cannot take a position given that it is not a voting member country and thus has to remain neutral.
“The frog spirits coming from our dear leaders mouths are natural frog spirits and not demonic frog-like spirits.” — a WHO announcement from sometime in a coming 7 years
Source: WHO
Reporting: Reuters
Are you shi....Obama-ing me? You actually expect me to believe any of that?
At this stage, I trust what W.H.O. says almost as much as what China says.
Reuters is a Chinese paid rag. Why post Communist propaganda?
#Xinhua-Reuters
I completely believe everything the WHO says. They are an international organization of experts drawing on conclusive and concrete data from honest and transparent nations. Plus, they use these nifty model thingies that are way beyond any ordinary person’s comprehension, so they must be right.
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