Grand Canyon Times

Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally called on the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) general director to resign accusing him of covering up under-reporting of the COVID-19 virus in China.

According to a report in Politico, she told a FOX Business reporter that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should resign over the organization's handling of the virus reporting in China, which began in that country. China has claimed a slowing of new cases of the virus that is spreading rapidly among Americans.

New reports are questioning the accuracy of China's data.

"I’ve never trusted a communist,” McSally said in the Politico report. “Their cover-up of this virus that originated with them has caused unnecessary deaths around America and around the world. WHO needs to stop covering for them. I think Dr. Tedros needs to step down. We need to take some action to address this issue. It's just irresponsible. It’s unconscionable what they have done here while we have people dying across the globe."

Last week Sen. Rick Scott requested a congressional investigation into WHO’s handling of the matter and suggested the United States might withhold funding from the WHO for its alleged helping of Communist China to conceal the true numbers of virus cases.

McSally agreed.

"We need to look at addressing the WHO,” she said. “U.S. debts to China should be forgiven, as a minimum.”

Tarik Jašarević, a spokesman for the WHO, did not directly counter McSally's accusations, but said the organization expects its member countries to report data in a timely and truthful manner.

"Membership in the WHO and signing up to the International Health Regulations both carry with it the responsibility to prioritize public health, nationally and internationally, not only because global health norms say so, but because the two are inextricably linked, as this global pandemic has made clear to the world," Jašarević was quoted in the Politico report.