By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Recent revelations that some federal officials now believe COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology vindicates many silenced when they suggested the pandemic began in the lab.
Eastern Kansas Congressman Jake LaTurner says it’s important to determine the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
“If you said just a couple of years ago that perhaps this started in a lab in Wuhan, you were laughed at, you were banned on social media,” LaTurner tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. “We had these big tech companies deciding what truth and what fiction was and it is wrong.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News in an interview the bureau has concluded the COVID-19 pandemic was “most likely a potential lab incident.” The Department of Energy recently stated it is plausible the coronavirus originated from a lab leak.
LaTurner, a Republican, says the country needs to know the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This has killed millions of people across the globe,” LaTurner says. “We need to know exactly what China did, exactly how it happened and we should not rest until we uncover this.”
LaTurner doesn’t expect China to cooperate in the investigation.
“The one theory was that it started in the wet markets and they destroyed everything before it could be tested or before there was any outside (investigation) over the issue,” according to LaTurner. “China is not going to be a good partner on this or anything else.”
LaTurner says Republicans are determined to get to the bottom of how COVID-19 began.
“Again, this is something that if you said that it started at the Wuhan lab not that long ago, you were laughed at, you were shut down by the big tech companies,” LaTurner says. “And, now all of the sudden, it’s a real possibility that that’s what happened. We should not rest, the American people deserve answers on this, and we are going to do everything we can to deliver those.”