WHO Concludes That Coronavirus "Came From Animal," Not Wuhan Lab After a seemingly endless stream of flip-flopping that culminated earlier this month with a highly coordinated "visit" to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it looks like at least one member of the WHO's team has cracked, and decided to share the truth with the west. Despite the WHO's best efforts to stop him from speaking, the WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek made the assessment in a summation Tuesday of a WHO team’s investigation into the possible origins of the coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first cases were discovered in December 2019. China has strongly denied the possibility of a leak from the lab and has promoted unproven theories that the virus may have originated elsewhere before being brought to Wuhan, including possibly on imported frozen food packaging. The visit by the WHO team took months to negotiate after China only agreed to it amid massive international pressure at the World Health Assembly meeting last May, and Beijing has continued to deny calls for a strictly independent investigation. Chinese authorities have kept a tight hold on information about the possible causes of the pandemic that has now sickened more than 105 million people and killed more than 2.2 million worldwide. “Did we change dramatically the picture we had beforehand? I don’t think so,” said Peter Ben Embarek, a Danish food-safety expert who spoke on behalf of the WHO delegation. “Did we improve our understanding? Did we add details to that picture? Absolutely.” The preliminary assessment came at a news conference that followed a two-week-long mission to Wuhan, the original center of the pandemic, which included both Chinese and WHO experts. Tyler Durden Tue, 02/09/2021 - 07:21