ABC Discovers What We Already Knew: China Tried to Cover-Up the Virus

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 3, 2020
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In the middle of ABC’s coronavirus coverage, during Sunday’s Good Morning America, the network admitted what many people had already figured out, that communist China had covered up the emergence and spread of the virus. But Sunday’s report came with the backup of a “blistering” U.S. intelligence assessment, as reported by correspondent Rachel Scott.

“This morning, U.S. intelligence officials are accusing China of a coronavirus cover-up. A new report from the Department of Homeland Security, obtained by ABC News, claims the Chinese government intentionally concealed the severity of COVID-19 in early January,” Scott explained at the top of her report.

Scott even appeared to throw the World Health Organization (WHO) under the bus for spreading China’s misinformation:

During that time, officials say China was also building out its own stockpile of medical supplies. And took steps to protect it. On January 14th, the WHO shared this tweet, saying China saw “no evidence of human-to-human transmission” of coronavirus.

This was something many people had already understood to be true. Meanwhile, the liberal media were clutching their pearls about President Trump cutting funding to the propaganda spreading organization.

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