Americans Could Recover Trillions in Damages From Lawsuits Against CCP Over Its Pandemic Coverup: Expert

A man (L) is given a nucleic acid test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Mangshi in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, which borders Myanmar in China's southwestern Yunnan Province, on July 9, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images

Americans could sue the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for trillions of dollars over its coverup of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to lawyer and economist Jim Rickards.

The pandemic, which has caused a reported global death toll of 4 million, including more than 600,000 in the United States, likely was caused by a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Rickards writes in his book “The New Great Depression: Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World.”