Sen. Cotton: There Is No Question China Pressured the World Health Organization To Downplay Coronavirus

‘WHO has some real answers to provide the world about why they bowed to Chinese pressure throughout December and January’

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COTTON:  "There’s no question that xi-ping and senior officials in the Chinese communist party were pressuring the WHO all the way back to December to undersell the risk of this virus. They knew in China, early on, probably as early as the letter early days of December that this virus was highly contagious among humans and very deadly for some people but they wanted to — "
MARIA:  "Yes?"
COTTON:  "They wanted to make sure that this in addition to saving face that once they realized this virus would cripple their own economy that it did not remain limited China so the WHO has some real answers to provide the world about why they bow to Chinese pressure throughout December and January and turn what could have been a local health emergency in Wuhan into a global pandemic."

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