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Exclusive: Congress is investigating whether the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan was a covid-19 superspreader event washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… @washingtonpost

@washingtonpost In Oct 2019, 9,000 international athletes from more than 100 countries traveled to the Wuhan Military World Games — and many of them later got sick with covid-19-like symptoms. But there has never been a real investigation... washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Nailing down the timeline of the pandemic’s origin is a crucial task. The United States needs to do its best to figure it out, lawmakers are now saying, regardless of where the data leads.

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.@RepGallagher to SecDef Austin & Gen Milley: “Given unanswered questions surrounding the origins of the pandemic, information involving the health of service members who participated in the 2019 games could provide key evidence in understanding when COVID-19 first emerged..."

.@RogerMarshallMD to @SecBecerra : “The World Military Games’ proximity to the WIV and the new details of the athletes potentially being exposed to COVID-19 while participating in the event present an alarming coincidence our government must investigate..."

"Five senior national security officials from the Trump administration told me that no one even thought to test the U.S. military athletes who returned from Wuhan."

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Determining the timeline of the outbreak is crucial to understanding the origins — and the scope of the Chinese government’s coverup. The politics don’t matter. It’s a matter of national security and public health. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Determining the timeline of the outbreak is crucial to understanding the origins — and the scope of the Chinese government’s coverup. The politics don’t matter. It’s a matter of national security and public health.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…