Media ‘sided with Chinese Government’ in attempts to shutdown COVID-19-origin inquiry

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Leftist media “sided with the Chinese Government” in trying to shut down inquiry into the origin of COVID-19, according to Sky News host Sharri Markson. Ms Markson said China had admitted its increasing attack on Australia was largely the result of Australia’s “world-leading” call for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. “But months after Australia first called for this inquiry, we are no closer to an answer about how this virus started,” she said. She said there appeared little interest from the media to investigate the topic, with most of the media almost entirely rejecting the notion the virus may have leaked from a Wuhan Laboratory. Ms Markson said in February 2020, the Lancet published a letter signed by 27 leading scientists saying the virus originated from animals and accused those who questioned whether it instead originated from a laboratory of spreading misinformation. She revealed 466 pages of new email correspondence, released under FOI this week and obtained by the US Right to Know group, exposed the letter in the Lancet was organised and authored by “a group called the EcoHealth Alliance”. “It is a US non-profit group that has received millions of dollars from the US to do joint research, genetically modifying coronaviruses, with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the same type of research that is suspected of having inadvertently leaked to cause COVID-19,” she said. “The real information, the truth, is that we still don’t know how the virus started. It may have had natural origins or it may have leaked from a laboratory. “It’s why Australia led the world in calling for an inquiry into the origins of the virus. And it’s why China is now coming after us.” Ms Markson said it was “absurd” a group of scientists, just a month after the virus emerged publicly, signed off on an article in the Lancet claiming the virus came from animals, and criticizing any suggestion otherwise as “misinformation”. “And what’s more absurd, is that the majority of the media just swallowed this line without question. And those who did question it were attacked by the left, the Guardian, the Herald, the abc, media watch,” she said. “They sided with the Chinese Government in trying to shut down reporting of this question, just like the Chinese Government has tried to shut down an inquiry into the origins.”

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