The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will conduct a wide-ranging probe into topics, from how the virus spread in the first place to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) response to the outbreak, committee chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Politico on April 13.
“Where did this all start from? Was this transferred animal to human? Was this from a lab in China? Might have been the best of intentions trying to come up with the different cures, with the different therapies for the coronavirus in general,” Johnson said.“We need to know what role WHO might have had in trying to cover this thing up,” the chairman added.
The investigation will also look into why the national stockpile of emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies wasn’t “better prepared,” and the United States’ dependence on other countries for pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices, according to Johnson.
“We can’t trust communist China, we’ve learned we can’t trust the WHO because they lie to us,” Scott told Politico, adding that he would delve into when the body knew how the virus was transmitted, and when it grew skeptical of the number of cases reported by the regime.
“Let’s create a new organization if this is important to us because it clearly didn’t work,” Scott said of the WHO.