2 hours agoOBS investigators say China refused to hand over key data to Covid's origin
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The boom is growing after the World Health Organisation's investigation into the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic after one of its members said China had refused to hand over key data, and after the US national security adviser said it had “deep concerns for the initial findings. An international delegation travelled [...]
An international delegation travelled to the Chinese town of Wuhan last month as part of the effort to understand how the pandemic broke out.
Dominic Dwyer, an expert on infectious diseases from Australia that was part of the team that travelled, said he had requested patient data but was given only a summary, writes The Guardian, translates Periscopi.
Dweyer told Reuters on Saturday that the sharing of anonymous data was <x0 standard practice” for investigating the pandemic explosion. He said giving raw data was especially important to understanding Coddy-19shin.
This is why we insisted on asking for this,” said Dwyer. “Why didn't they give it to us, couldn't comment. Whether it's a political issue, or a matter of time, or hard,”
Wuhan is the location where the disease was identified, and the first city hit hard by the wave of infections. /Periscope
