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REPORT: China-Led WHO Investigation On Chinese Lab Expected To Say Exactly What China Wanted it To Say | The Daily Caller

Despite conflicts of interest and the fact that China’s ministry of foreign affairs monitored the WHO experts, the report claimed dailycaller.com/2021/03/29/chi…

to have “debunked” the likelihood the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab.

However, the still-unreleased report offers no definitive answer as to where the virus originated.

Dr. Peter Daszak, the only U.S. citizen on the WHO team investigating the origins of the virus, has deep ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and went so far as to organize a PR campaign in the early months of 2020 to portray the lab leak hypothesis as a “conspiracy.”

Peter Daszak is a British zoologist and an expert on disease ecology, in particular on zoonosis. He is currently president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention with headquarters in

New York City In his February 27, 2020 New York Times article, titled "We Knew Disease X Was Coming", Daszak said R&D Blueprint group of experts to which he belonged, had in February 2018 warned the WHO of the "next pandemic, which would be caused by an unknown, novel pathogen

that hadn't yet entered the human population." The Blueprint group coined this hypothetical pathogen "Disease X" and was included it on a list of eight diseases which they recommended should be given highest priority in regard to research and development efforts, such as finding

better diagnostic methods and developing vaccines.[18] He said, "As the world stands today on the edge of the pandemic precipice, it's worth taking a moment to consider whether Covid-19 is the disease our group was warning about."[8]

Daszak was interviewed for a June 2020 Scientific American article on "China's bat woman" Shi Zhengli, a principal investigator at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He praised her and defended her staunchly in the article, which notes that Shi and he are "long-term

collaborators". Daszak said: "Shi leads a world-class lab of the highest standards... It’s crystal clear that bats, once again, are the natural reservoir."Daszak was named by the World Health Organization as the sole U.S.-based representative on a team sent to investigate

origins of the COVID-19 pandemic,[31] a team that also includes Marion Koopmans, Hung Nguyen, and Fabian Leendertz.[31] According to NPR, Daszak "says wildlife farms in southern China are the most likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic."

In October 2018, Daszak was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM),[33] which the New York Times has been called the "most esteemed and authoritative adviser on issues of health and medicine" whose "reports can transform medical thinking around the world."[