Tom Cotton: ‘Worse Than Chernobyl’

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Fox News on Sunday that the China’s communist government has repeatedly lied about the coronavirus, including the magnitude of the problem and where the virus originated.

Cotton, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Armed Services Committee, told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that “the situation is very grave, in part because, as you say, China was lying from the beginning, and they’re still lying today, and also because there are so many unknowns about this virus, for example, how many people one person can infect once they have the virus, the extent to which it’s contagious before one is symptomatic, or the mortality rate.”

Cotton also said that China’s claim in January that the virus originated from an animal market was not true.

“This virus didn’t originate in the Wuhan animal market,” Cotton said.

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