americanmilitairynews | Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott on Tuesday
called on Congress to investigate the World Health Organization (WHO)
for its early handling of the coronavirus outbreak that began in China,
and allegations the WHO helped China conceal the severity of the virus.
Scott described his concerns about the WHO’s handling of the virus in a statement shared on his Senate website.
“The mission of the WHO is to get
public health information to the world so every country can make the
best decisions to keep their citizens safe. When it comes to
Coronavirus, the WHO failed. They need to be held accountable for their
role in promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a
global pandemic,” Scott said.”We know Communist China is lying about how
many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew it –
and the WHO never bothered to investigate further. Their inaction cost
lives.”
Scott called on Congress to open an
investigation of the WHO, once it comes back in session, “To review
whether American taxpayers should continue to spend millions of dollars
every year to fund an organization that willfully parroted propaganda
from the Chinese Communist Party.”
The Chinese government reportedly took several efforts in late December and early January to conceal knowledge about the novel strain of coronavirus,
now commonly referred to as COVID-19. Chinese medical professionals who
encountered the disease early on were reportedly detained and
reprimanded for “spreading rumors” and in some reports were told to
destroy data establishing the existence of the novel coronavirus strain.
