Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is accusing the Chinese government of withholding information about the origin and spread of COVID-19.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Reuters report on Wednesday that the U.S. had real concerns about the laboratories inside China amid the new coronavirus outbreak, and he said that the Chinese government has not been transparent enough about how this virus started and how it spread.
"We all need to get to the bottom of what actually happened," Pompeo said."There are still many labs operating in China today, and the world needs to know we are not going to see a repeat of this." While it's not disputed that COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, theories have circulated about whether this began in an open Chinese market as an animal-borne virus, as the Chinese have claimed, or was that it was a man-made virus created in a laboratory, as Pompeo suggested.
"Our analyses, and others too, point to an earlier origin than that. There were definitely cases there, but that wasn't the origin of the virus," Robert Garry, a professor at Tulane University School of Medicine, told ABC News.
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