Critics Challenge WHO Virus Origins Report, Saying It Lacks Independence

Peter Ben Embarek speaks during a press conference to wrap up a visit by an international team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) in the city of Wuhan, in China's Hubei province on Feb. 9, 2021. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

A report from scientists assembled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and China into the origins of the pandemic is drawing criticism challenging the independence of its findings.

The report, released on March 30, left unresolved the question of how the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus (which causes the COVID-19 disease) entered the population but concluded the possibility of it being leaked from a lab as “extremely unlikely.”