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In January, an international team of infectious disease experts was tasked by the World Health Organization with traveling to Wuhan, China, in search of the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (March 4) that WHO has scrapped plans to release an interim report of its findings ahead of the full, official record, despite announcing in mid-February that one would be coming. WHO did not provide a statement regarding why the interim report was dropped.
During the month-long investigation—the first two weeks of which was spent in quarantine—the team members remarked on difficulties regarding transparency. They were denied access to raw data, could only visit approved locations, and were barred from speaking to people in the community, Reuters reports. However, Peter Daszak, a member of the investigation team, tweeted in mid-February that an earlier report of lack of access was untrue. ...
