World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus deemed the quest for COVID-19's origins both a scientific and moral imperative as the organization passed the three-year anniversary of classifying the illness as a pandemic.
"Understanding #COVID19's origins and exploring all hypotheses remains: a scientific imperative, to help us prevent future outbreaks (and) a moral imperative, for the sake of the millions of people who died and those who live with #LongCOVID," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted late Saturday.
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Understanding #COVID19’s origins and exploring all hypotheses remains:
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 11, 2023
-a scientific imperative, to help us prevent future outbreaks
-a moral imperative, for the sake of the millions of people who died and those who live with #LongCOVID
The WHO sounded the highest alarms about the COVID-19 respiratory illness on Jan. 30, 2020. Then on March 11, 2020, the organization deemed the virus a global pandemic. Detractors have criticized the international public health organization for its handling of the virus and for being too soft on China.
Three years after COVID-19 first wreaked havoc on the world and causes trillions of dollars worth of damage to the global economy, its origins remain unknown. Two prevailing theories are that it stemmed from natural transmission spillover or a lab leak.
"Over 3 years into the #COVID19 emergency, too many lives have been lost. Too many people are still suffering, including from #LongCOVID. We'll never stop demanding equitable access to life-saving tools," Adhanom Ghebreyesus added.
Late last month, reports revealed that the Energy Department shifted from being undecided to a “low confidence” conclusion that the virus most likely stemmed from a lab leak rather than natural transmission spillover. That view remains a minority position in the intelligence community but is shared by the FBI.
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In 2021, a WHO-led team traveled to Wuhan, China, home to the earliest known human cases of COVID-19. China has stressed that no additional visits were needed.
In the time since the WHO has established a scientific advisory group that has not yet reached a determination on how the pandemic began, contending that key evidence is missing.