Even before the report was issued, the Biden administration publicly questioned its objectivity and credibility. The 123-page report dedicates only a few lines to the theory that the outbreak might be connected to an accident at one of the Wuhan labs — a possibility that it summarily dismisses. Daszak denied that a lab accident might be possible even before the investigation began, and he has repeatedly claimed the lab disclosed all its research. The WHO report’s claims that the WIV lab was “well-managed” is contradicted by two U.S. cables sent to Washington in 2018 by U.S. diplomats who had made three trips to the lab. The Chinese government and the friends of the Wuhan lab want to dismiss any efforts to call for more investigation into the lab-accident theory as conspiracy theories.

Source: Washington Post March 30, 2021 00:33 UTC