{"id":79829,"date":"2021-08-18T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=79829"},"modified":"2021-08-18T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:30:47","slug":"new-congressional-report-says-covid-19-likely-emerged-wuhan-months-earlier-originally-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/new-congressional-report-says-covid-19-likely-emerged-wuhan-months-earlier-originally-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"New Congressional Report Says COVID-19 Likely Emerged in Wuhan Months Earlier Than Originally Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Nineteen months after the start of the pandemic, the Chinese government continues&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/07\/22\/china-covid-who-wuhan\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to actively thwart<\/a>&nbsp;a real investigation into the origins of covid-19. Now, a new GOP congressional report alleges that Beijing was covering up the outbreak for months longer than previously assumed.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">The House Foreign Affairs Committee minority staff, led by ranking Republican Michael McCaul (Tex.), released Monday an 84-page&nbsp;<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addendum<\/a>&nbsp;to their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov\/blog\/mccaul-releases-final-report-on-origins-of-covid-19-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously issued report<\/a>&nbsp;on the origins of covid-19. Their new research focuses on whether the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the world\u2019s leading bat&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;research center, as well as other labs in Wuhan, could have been the source of the outbreak. The report also presents extensive evidence that the international community may need to revise its timeline of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\u201cIt is our belief the virus leaked sometime in late August or early September 2019,\u201d McCaul said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov\/press-release\/mccaul-releases-addendum-to-origins-of-covid-19-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a statement<\/a>&nbsp;accompanying the release of the report. \u201cWhen they realized what happened, Chinese Communist Party officials and scientists at the WIV began frantically covering up the leak. \u2026 But their coverup was too late \u2014 the virus was already spreading throughout the megacity of Wuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen months after the start of the pandemic, the Chinese government continues&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/07\/22\/china-covid-who-wuhan\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to actively thwart<\/a>&nbsp;a real investigation into the origins of covid-19. 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