It's also possible that there is something unrelated to the coronavirus outbreak that a thorough investigation might stumble upon which they are trying to keep

It's also possible that there is something unrelated to the coronavirus outbreak that a thorough investigation might stumble upon which they are trying to keep secret. The WIV was china's first biosafety level-4 lab and has close ties to China's military. from [0]: > Despite the WIV presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military. The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017. If I had done some work in the past on biological weapons that I didn't want the world to know about, I'd be very concerned about letting a bunch of international investigators examine labs that might be literally right down the hall. Alternatively if I were a government hostile to china who knew damn well what china was doing down the hall but can't find a good way to call them out on it, the opportunity to send investigators in for an unrelated reason would be a godsend. [0] https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/index.html https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...