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The 5th Anniversary of the Junket to Wuhan

The 5th Anniversary of the Junket to Wuhan
In this Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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From late January 2020, the international press featured growing talk of a strange virus that seemed to have started in Wuhan, China. People in the United States were curious but not panicked. The data on the fatality rate had a huge range, with the World Health Organization (WHO) putting out numbers like 3 percent and 4 percent but other sources estimating death rates closer to a bad flu year.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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