When a nation bears the blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what is Washington going to do?

More than 1.2 million Americans died as a result of a plague that began in China.

Those staggering global and US figures are the numbers reported to the World Health Organization. 

They make the COVID-19 pandemic the deadliest event the human race has suffered since World War II. 

The presence of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the city where the scourge originated raised suspicions from the start — was this an unnatural disaster?

China was studying coronaviruses in that laboratory, conducting “gain of function” research that often makes pathogens more infectious and deadly, yet much of America’s media reflexively dismissed any possibility of a lab leak, calling it a conspiracy theory born of racist paranoia.

That labeling didn’t silence the discussion, however:

If anything,........

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