Steve Daines Asks State Dept. to Investigate CCP’s ‘Culpability’ in Initially Downplaying Coronavirus

Senator Steve Daines (R., Mont.) has asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate China’s role in covering up the initial outbreak of coronavirus as the world continues to battle the global pandemic.“As you know, prior to China locking down Wuhan and Hubei Province on January 23, 2020, there were early indications that a SARS-type virus had jumped from an animal host and had begun to infect humans,” Daines wrote in the letter. “What is more alarming was that despit