WHO gets a bad report about COVID management

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

September 18, 2022 – A new report by the Lancet Commission, a scientific body, investigating the response to COVID19 is recommending that the WHO and other agencies place more focus on the origins of the COVID19 virus which remain murky.

“As a Commission, we strongly support the call for an objective, open, data-driven, transparent, and independent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2.44,  45 WHO, governments, and the scientific community should intensify the search for the origin of SARS-CoV-2, including a possible natural spillover or a possible research-related spillover,” the report maintained.

The Commission says it has not ruled out the possibility that COVID emerged from a genetically altered virus or that it emerged from an animal.

“As of the time of publication of this report, all three research-associated hypotheses are still plausible: infection in the field, infection with a natural virus in the laboratory, and infection with a manipulated virus in the laboratory.”

The Lancet went on to cite the heavy secrecy surrounding investigations surrounding other coronaviruses that governments including the United States had been researching at that time. The report stressed that in the absence of this sort of unbiased and rigorous research by a transparent team of experts the ‘public’s trust in science will be imperiled with potentially grave long-term repercussions.’