> In the critical first weeks of the pandemic, Beijing suppressed essential information and prevented World Health Organization investigators from entering the

> In the critical first weeks of the pandemic, Beijing suppressed essential information and prevented World Health Organization investigators from entering the country. > ... > Second, the Chinese equivalent of our CDC tested 41 species in the market and to date no intermediary species carrying the virus capable of transmitting the virus to humans has been identified. If you don't trust the Chinese government, why do you take their evidence against a competing theory at face value? Shouldn't they protect equally their research institutions, their meat markets, their public health authorities, and anybody else who might have committed a serious mistake? Of course, reading not very much between the lines, this piece looks like an attack by some right-wing clique with accounts to settle against Anthony Fauci, prominently noted as supporting the animal market hypothesis and having funded WIV coronavirus research; propaganda for a semi-smart audience.