My article for the Wall Street Journal, with Dr. Chan:In the first week of January, scientists representing the World Health Organization (WHO) were due to arrive in China to trace the origins of Covid-19.
The team membership and terms of reference were preapproved by the Chinese government, yet at the last minute Beijing denied entry to the investigators.
This prompted WHO to take the rare step of criticizing China, which relented and allowed the group to enter the country this week.The brief standoff highlights a more serious problem: the inadequacy of WHO’s current investigative framework for exploring all plausible origins of Covid-19.
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