Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., told Newsmax TV on Wednesday that Congress should investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in China, accusing the country of creating the virus and attempting to cover up the outbreak.
“It’s very, very important to get to the bottom of the origins of the coronavirus, and also China’s handling of the spread of the virus,” Barr told “National Report.”
The congressman went on to say that the investigation should look at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been at the center of conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19, saying, “there’s either something to this theory about this viral research laboratory that had insufficient and deficient safety protocols in place, investigators and scientists who were not adequately trained on this, that this was the cause of the release of the pandemic, or it’s one of the greatest coincidences in the century that this global pandemic would start.”
He added that “the real problem here is China’s cover up, the fact that they suppressed vital information and they wasted time that, according to one study, if they had been more forthcoming about the problem that they were seeing and allow for people to sound the alarm earlier, to help officials around the world, the spread of the disease could have been reduced by about 95%.”
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