White House officials told reporters Tuesday that China hasn’t been “completely transparent” in the global investigation into the origins of Covid-19, and that a full investigation is needed to determine whether the virus that’s killed almost 3.5 million people came from nature or a lab.
“We need to get to the bottom of this, whatever the answer may be,” White House senior Covid-19 advisor Andy Slavitt told reporters at a Covid briefing Tuesday. “We need a completely transparent process from China, we need the (World Health Organization) to assist in that matter and we don’t feel like we have that now.”
The theory that Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was initially dismissed by most medical experts and health officials as a conspiracy theory, but credible scientists continue to question the true origin of Covid-19.
