Sunny Hostin Points Finger at China for COVID Crisis: “Did Not Cooperate With the International Community”

The View is sounding off on the latest development in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Three years in, the FBI is sharing some key info about the origins of the disease, with director Christopher Wray revealing on Wednesday (Feb. 28) that “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in (central China’s) Wuhan,” per CBS.

Wray’s admission sparked a lively chat at the Hot Topics table as the co-hosts sounded off. Sunny Hostin — whose in-laws both died of COVID-19 — did not mince her words as she called out China for their response to the virus.

“They didn’t allow the World Health Organization to go into the lab. That was a very big problem, so they were hiding it,” she said. “I think the other significant problem is, the FBI said it has ‘moderate certainty,’ the energy department I think says, ‘limited certainty.’ The reason there is so much uncertainty is because the Chinese did not cooperate with the international community.”

Whoopi Goldberg chimed in, “And they have never cooperated!”

Hostin later shared that when her husband’s parents died of COVID, all he could think about was where the virus had come from.

“We had this discussion about the Wuhan lab being right there. We’ve both been to China, we’ve been to Shenzhen, we’ve been to Hong Kong, and we have friends that still live there,” she said.

“The rumor at the time was that it came from the lab. That’s what the Chinese even thought,” Hostin continued. “And what I will say is that because, as you mentioned Whoopi, Trump unleashed this xenophobia — he stopped allowing Chinese people to come to the country, he then started calling it the—” but as she searched for Trump’s racist term for COVID-19, her co-hosts stopped her.

“Don’t even say it,” Goldberg said.

Hostin continued, mimicking Trump’s pronunciation of China and noting, “I was even concerned as someone who had lost family members for Manny to even bring it up. And that is really sad because when you can’t trust the transparency of your government, where are you?”

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