I wonder if anyone is going to be held accountable. I'm guessing not.
Well it remains to be seen.
The NIH and WHO both receive most of their funding from the USA. Other nations put money into it as well but it's practically nothing by comparison.
And then this lab is in China...
It very well may be that those responsible for this accident are already dead. Either by getting sick or met with capital punishment. (Dead men tell no tales) or a combination of both.
And the big issue is preventing this from happening again. This lab was known to have cheap research. They were known to have lax protocols. But American researchers still funded parts of research to be conducted there. American and European labs cost far more to accomplish the same tasks.
Some parts of the same research cannot be done in America and Europe. China isn't held to some of the restrictions the labs in America and Europe are held to. And there's no real way to make them limit themselves in such a fashion.
The University of Texas was in the midst of researching Corona Virus (funded by the NIH) and paid for live virus research at the Wuhan facility. Wuhan isolated this virus (out of millions possible) and grew it to work with it.
They considered it to be rather harmless versus Ebola or any of the other strains. Which is why they were working with it.
So...
Now we have a huge problem.
I can foresee that American research is going to tighten up drastically. Information is not going to be shared so freely with China. Those with ties to foreign Governments are going to be scrutinized like never before... some projects will be dropped.
Anything and everything with Chinese ties will be "forgotten". Chinese research scientists wanting to come to America will not be allowed. There's a lot of changes coming. It's going to cost the Chinese trillions of dollars for this one... nevermind the losses of the world economies. (Which they need)
This is going to hurt them like never before. I can imagine that some of the Chinese in America are going to go to jail before it's all over. The others will run back. Oh...it's going to be painful everywhere.