Democrat Senators Join Call to Press Biden on Coronavirus Origin InvestigationJacob Bliss 28 Jul 2021
Democrat Sens. Bob Menendez (NJ) and Mark Warner (VA) join the ongoing calls from Republicans to pressure President Joe Biden on the Chinese coronavirus origin investigation.
The Democrats joined Republican Sens. James Risch (ID) and Marco Rubio (FL) in a letter to Biden saying, “The threat to international health and security posed by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) repressive and opaque governance of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become glaringly apparent over the past 18 months.”
The group of senators slammed the PRC for their “refusal to cooperate with the World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] origins, [and] the gag order it imposed on Chinese scientists and medical personnel.” They added that the “ongoing obfuscation and disinformation campaign regarding the pandemic have caused severe hardship worldwide.”
The senators believe that “addressing gaps in international pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, including within our own government, three crucial steps are necessary to prevent a similar calamity in the future” as the United States starts to come out of lockdowns across the country from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
“Identifying where the virus originated and how it first spread will be critical to preventing future pandemics,” they wrote. They mentioned that if Biden’s initial 90-day effort does not get a confident conclusion, they will again “urge [Biden] to direct the intelligence community to continue prioritizing this inquiry until such conclusions are possible.”
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