Alex Azar on CCP Coverup of Pandemic: We Learned About the Virus From Taiwan

Alex Azar on CCP Coverup of Pandemic: We Learned About the Virus From Taiwan
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks after a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington on June 26, 2020. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Health Secretary Alex Azar on Thursday reminded Americans of how Beijing, about a year ago, had held back the truth about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak, allowing it to turn into a global crisis.
Azar, during a speech at conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, said the early U.S. response to the CCP virus was particularly difficult because the virus emerged in China, which, given the nature of the communist regime, “severely limited” outside access to information about it.