Donald Trump’s surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, makes a good point when he says that Americans are focusing on the wrong individuals when they try to ascribe blame for the death toll from COVID-19.
It’s not Adams’ former boss or Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime infectious disease expert who steered the U.S. response, on whom the country should be fixated, Adams wrote in a recent op-ed column for USA Today. The focus, he said, should be on China and its refusal to be forthcoming on the origin of the virus and what it did, or didn’t do, to stop the contagion’s early spread.
True enough, but what is not accurate is something else Adams wrote: “Whether COVID-19 came from a lab leak or a naturally occurring animal mutation is almost certainly an unknowable answer.”
To the contrary, chances are good that China knows the answer. It’s just not sharing it and maybe never will, given the communist nation’s autocratic nature.
Improbable and impossible, though, are not the same.
