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WHO Official Claims It's 'Too Early' to Determine COVID-19 Originated in China
Townhall ^ | 01/27/2021 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 01/27/2021 6:50:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind

As one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden rejoined the World Health Organization. But a top WHO official’s recent comment about the origins of the novel coronavirus call the decision into question.

Michael Ryan, the executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program, said during a press conference last week that it’s “too early” to say that the coronavirus originated in China.

“I think we have to say this quite plainly; all hypotheses are on the table and it is definitely too early to come to a conclusion of exactly where this virus started either within or without China,” he said.

Ryan was responding to a reporter for NBC who asked about China's denials that the virus originated in Wuhan or elsewhere in the country.

“Let’s step back, let’s follow the evidence, let’s follow the science. Our team are on the ground, they’re having a good experience working with our Chinese colleagues. We’re working through the data. The data will lead us to the next phase, where we need to go next to look at the origins of this virus,” Ryan said.

In November, however, Ryan said it would be "highly speculative for us to say that the disease did not emerge in China."

Former President Trump moved to formally withdraw the U.S. from the global health organization, accusing the world body of being in China’s pocket.

"The world is now suffering as a result of the malfeasance of the Chinese government," Trump said, adding that China pressured the WHO to “mislead the world” about COVID-19. "China has total control over the World Health Organization," he added—a claim the WHO has denied.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: again; chicomcovid; chicomflu; china; covid19; origins; who; xiscovid
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Days after Biden signed an exec order re-joining America to the @WHO, the WHO tells NBC it’s “too early” to say that Covid originated in China pic.twitter.com/Kcn0uEkt9q

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 26, 2021

1 posted on 01/27/2021 6:50:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Lol, right...........


2 posted on 01/27/2021 6:52:55 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: SeekAndFind

> “I think we have to say this quite plainly; all hypotheses are on the table and it is definitely too early to come to a conclusion of exactly where this virus started either within or without China,” he said. <

I just ran that through my Jonny Quest decoder ring. Here’s what came out: “The Chinese have promised me a significant bribe. But I haven’t received the money yet.”


3 posted on 01/27/2021 6:55:24 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The virus is spread by kissing China’s A$$.....................................


4 posted on 01/27/2021 6:55:28 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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Early?! China’s paying you well, eh? Checks cleared yet?


5 posted on 01/27/2021 6:56:25 AM PST by madison10
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To: SeekAndFind

Anybody that accepts this narrative is either stoopid or complicent. Probably 50/50.


6 posted on 01/27/2021 6:57:35 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, sure ... And if my grandma had wheels, she’d be a wagon.


7 posted on 01/27/2021 6:58:33 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: SeekAndFind
WHO Official Claims

WHO owned by China Communists. Are we not surprised?

8 posted on 01/27/2021 6:59:29 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: SeekAndFind

They also claim that the BCG vaccine isn’t helping developing nations not have huge death rates from Covid despite studies to the contrary like this one. I mean seriously,

What. The. Hell?

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/study-tb-vaccine-linked-to-lower-risk-of-contracting-covid-19/


9 posted on 01/27/2021 7:01:26 AM PST by BlackAdderess (IMO Congress is a symptom whereas K Street is the problem)
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To: SeekAndFind

The CCP check must’ve cleared.


10 posted on 01/27/2021 7:03:25 AM PST by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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WHO Official Claims It's 'Too Early' to Determine from which Chinese bioweapons lab exactly COVID-19 Originated

I like my headline better!

Regards,

11 posted on 01/27/2021 7:08:23 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liars.


12 posted on 01/27/2021 7:16:56 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: SeekAndFind

Apparently they’re not interested in listening to Steve Hilton’s “The Next Revolution” to learn the real story. He made a very convincing case on Sunday night 1/24..from A to Z but like all bureaucrats - they don’t run from A to Z - they run on who knows what!!!


13 posted on 01/27/2021 7:21:17 AM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a bit early for April Fool’s Day.


14 posted on 01/27/2021 7:27:55 AM PST by bgill ("Salute the Marines")
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Funny how other pandemics were named for the location of their origin, but not COVID-19. What should be called Wuhan Virus, based upon passed history, is renamed due to political correctness and a desire to protect China. None of this is by accident and we are all being played.

Great Plague of London
Great Plague of Marseille
Russian plague
Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic
Spanish Flu
Asian Flu
West African Ebola epidemic
Zika Virus epidemic
Lyme Disease

15 posted on 01/27/2021 7:30:01 AM PST by RBW in PA
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope the WHO does not need as much time as our leaders needed for the 2 week shutdown to flatten the curve


16 posted on 01/27/2021 7:30:42 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

IMHO, it was a deliberate Act of War!

Communist China conspired with Democrats to keep President Trump FRom winning a second term in the White House - the Chinese Communist Coronavirus was the perfect tool to do that!

Neither the Democrat Party nor the Chinese Communist Party could afford a Trump win in 2020.

He was in the process of destroying both, and HAD to be stopped after every other effort to stop him had failed.

Is the phrase “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY” at play here?


17 posted on 01/27/2021 7:31:14 AM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Biden is wholly owned by the CCP. They will be allowed to do/say whatever the hell they want to do/say."

They own and control Joe and Hoe!

The good news is they need us as a prime customer, trainer of new engineers, a pipeline for new technology, as a trading partner and as an ally.

If we are not a military threat to them and can help fund their aggression around the world, they will just control us not bomb us.

The bad news is they will control more of our lives during and post Biden and Hoe.


18 posted on 01/27/2021 8:16:38 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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President Trump said the WHO was bought and paid for by China but did the Dems listen? obviously not. So now we’re back to playing the games that the virus originated in the US or Italy or Australia or England or anyplace but China where the bats live.


19 posted on 01/27/2021 12:14:11 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: SeekAndFind
I've seen this movie before.

"Too soon to say... too late to do anything about it."

-PJ

20 posted on 01/27/2021 12:23:58 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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