The World Health Organisation’s failure to objectively investigate the origins of COVID-19 shows there isn’t a global institution capable of exploring the emergence of pandemics, according to the US Right to Know group’s Gary Ruskin.
An international team of World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists, working with experts in China, has been researching how the COVID-19 pandemic began.
However, the investigation has been criticised for kowtowing to China, in particular when it comes to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which did not open its books to the investigators.
Recently, the head of the World Health Organisation had to deny reports investigators dismissed the theory COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.
In a press briefing on Friday, director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “Some questions have been raised as to whether some hypotheses have been discarded.”
“Having spoken with some members of the team, I wish to confirm that all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and study.”
Mr Ruskin todl Sky News his organisation, the US Right to Know, has been looking into some of the investigators.
He said some have been pushing the idea that COVID-19 originated after the virus jumped from an ” intermediary host species” to humans well before that theory was rigorously tested.
“We plainly do not have an international way of investigating these terrible pandemic disease outbreaks,” Mr Ruskin said.
“We are in the middle of an international institution crisis, and frankly, we need to do better.”