WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott called on Congress this week to hold a hearing and investigate the World Health Organization’s (WHO) role in helping Communist China cover up information regarding the threat of the Coronavirus. In February, Senator Scott called on the WHO to do its own in-depth analysis on the extent of the Coronavirus – which they haven’t done.

Read more from the Daily Signal article, Citing ‘Pandering’ to China, Sen. Rick Scott Wants WHO Documents on Coronavirus, below:

“The World Health Organization should have a reckoning for parroting China’s misinformation about the coronavirus, taking a hit to its budget if it doesn’t reform, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Thursday in an interview with The Daily Signal.…

‘If the WHO had done its job, not as many people would be dead, we would be further along right now, and every country would be better off,’ the Florida Republican told The Daily Signal.

Scott, a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate’s chief oversight panel, said he has talked to committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., about an investigation of WHO, and that Johnson supports the idea.... 

‘We could cut funding or we could tie future funding to certain changes,’ Scott said. ‘It is supposed to be the World Health Organization, world health, but it panders to China.’…

In a letter in February, Scott requested that WHO do its own internal investigation....

Scott co-sponsored legislation with Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., to include Taiwan in the World Health Organization, since that country had great success in responding to COVID-19. 

It was ‘disgusting,’ Scott said, how WHO’s assistant director-general, Bruce Aylward, refused to answer a question in a recent interview about admitting Taiwan to the organization.…”

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