“It is a very heavy crisis because think about ... what people had to pay for this: 3.8 million people have lost their lives because China lied to the world—600,000 of those 3.8 [million] are Americans,” McCarthy told Fox News on Sunday night.
“What the first thing we should do is declassify the intelligence. That would show us that it came from Wuhan,” McCarthy said, noting that social media companies limited the ability to talk about where it came from and how to name the virus.
Former President Donald Trump early on said that COVID-19 “came from China” and sometimes called it the “Chinese virus.” His rhetoric and handling of the pandemic had been scrutinized by the legacy media and the left.
“The next thing we should do is deny the function of funding in Wuhan anymore,” McCarthy continued. “We should deny the [National Institute of Health (NIH)] from their ability to give grants or sub-grants to countries like China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia.”
McCarthy went on to say that the U.S. government should limit the visas coming from China and lift sovereign immunity, so for those 600,000 individuals who died, “their family can actually have justice and sue China.”
McCarthy also claimed that the 24th Winter Olympics shouldn’t be held in Beijing.
“If China lied to the rest of the world, why should the world reward them?” McCarthy asked.
The 24th Winter Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in Beijing and some nearby cities in February 2022.
“The World Health Organization (WHO)—it shouldn’t get funding from America, it should be restructured,” McCarthy added, “But one of the first things President [Joe] Biden did was send them more than $240 million with no strings attached.”
Biden signed an executive order to halt U.S. withdrawal from the WHO on Jan. 20, his first day in office.
“We cannot get to the origin of this by listening to China or the World Health Organization. We should declassify the information and find first and foremost where it came from and let the entire world know,” McCarthy concluded.
The Epoch Times has reached out to the White House for additional comment.