WHO calls on China to share data on raccoon dog link to pandemic. 2023 - China still preventing other nations from accessing data to cover-up its fault and recklessness.

The World Health Organization is calling on officials in China to release data that may show a link between animals and the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.

The data was posted briefly on an international database but then abruptly taken down over the weekend.

Security guards stand in front of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020, after the market had been closed following an outbreak of COVID-19 there. Two studies document samples of SARS-CoV-2 from stalls where live animals were sold.

The data was from environmental samples collected at a Wuhan seafood and meat market in the early days of the pandemic. International scientists spotted the material online and made copies of it before it was taken down. The information appears to show that genetic material from raccoon dogs and the virus that causes COVID were found in the same swabs, implying that the animals may have been an initial host.

"A scientist on the team noticed the data come online by happenstance, and because they often check the GISAID database," says Alexander Crits-Christopher, senior scientist in Computational Biology at Cultivarium, a nonprofit group focused on open source tools for research. "She shared the data with an international team and realized the relevance and importance of the data. This team then immediately contacted the data generators in the hopes of open communication and collaboration. The team then immediately alerted the WHO about the presence of the data, and the WHO has helped mediate that communication. All three of the parties above have iterated a shared goal of making data and analyses as open as possible, as soon as possible."

1 Year after Wuhan Virus Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan, China, China still has not let the WHO investigate!

1 Year after Wuhan Virus Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan, China, China still has not let the WHO investigate! On November 25, 2020, China's official CGTN broadcaster says China has given assurances to the World Health Organization (WHO) that the body will be able to send a team to investigate the origins of the coronavirus "as soon as possible".  In late February, the Chinese, after covering-up their responsibility for the virus, from which they have made over a trillion dollars in profit, while other countries have suffered trillions of dollars in losses, finally let in a sham, hobbled WHo team which was too little, too late, and which was a disgrace. Shame on the Chinese and the WHO!

How disgusting that Communist China still has not let any democratic institutions (including any other country) or the World Health Organization into Wuhan to investigate the virus and its origins. They have had a year to cover up the facts, so that the truth can never be discovered with proof. This is a top reason why no-one should ever do business with Communist China again.