China disease expert says COVID-19 origins probe should shift to U.S.

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[algore]

A senior Chinese epidemiologist said the United States should be the priority in the next phase of investigations into the origin of COVID-19 after a study showed the disease could have been circulating there as early as December 2019, state media said on Thursday.

The study, published this week by the U.S. National Institutes for Health (NIH), showed that at least seven people in five U.S. states were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, weeks before the United States reported its first official cases.

Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state-owned tabloid the Global Times that attention should shift to the United States, which was slow to test people in the early stages of the outbreak, and is also the home of many biological laboratories.

"All bio-weapons related subjects that the country has should be subject to scrutiny," he was quoted as saying.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The CCP is “relying on the stupidity of the American people”.

/gruber

[Revel]

Reuters loves Chinese propaganda.

[chief lee runamok]

"Horseshoe bats are of particular interest to public health and zoonosis as a source of coronaviruses."

"The greater horseshoe bat has the greatest geographic range of any horseshoe bat, occurring across Europe, North Africa, Japan, China, and southern Asia."

No mention of horseshoe bats in North America.

But then, all it would take is one well intentioned scientist to import a carcass or two.