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[Warning: The video below shows graphic images from the Wuhan, China wet market. The images show butchered animals including dogs. Viewer discretion is advised.]
Finally, a broadcast network made China the target of their scorn when it came to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Shockingly, CBS Evening News, via correspondent Ramy Inocencio, shared with viewers a scathing takedown of the origin of the outbreak: China and their infamous and disgusting wet markets. Beyond explaining why such markets were a spawning ground for disease, the segment relied heavily on graphic images to get the message across.
Anchor Norah O’Donnell was clearly peeved by the continued existence of wet markets during her opening tease. “Preventing the next outbreak: Inside the effort to close those markets for exotic animals, where the deadly virus was first spread. Why are they still in business,” she rhetorically asked.
And when they got to the segment, she noted that health officials believed the Chinese Coronavirus originated in the Wuhan, China wet market. “In fact, researchers tell us 70 percent of emerging infectious diseases in humans are transmitted from animals,” she added. “Dr. Anthony Fauci is leading worldwide calls to shut down markets like the one in China to prevent the next epidemic.”
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