Attorney General Cameron Joins 18-State Coalition Asking Congress to Investigate China’s Role in COVID-19 Pandemic

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron

FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 11, 2020) – Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced today that he has joined an 18-state coalition calling on Congress to investigate the communist Chinese government’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson led the effort, sending a letter Friday to the leadership of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees and members of House and Senate leadership asking for a Congressional investigation.

“COVID-19 has affected every part of life in the Commonwealth, and the repercussions of the virus will be felt long after the pandemic is over,” said Attorney General Cameron.  “We owe it to Kentuckians, and all Americans, to undertake a full Congressional investigation into the communist Chinese government’s actions beginning in the earliest days of the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan through its spread to the United States.”

“Recent reports suggest that the communist Chinese government willfully and knowingly concealed information about the severity of the virus while simultaneously stockpiling personal protective equipment,” Attorney General Wilson said in the letter. “In what Secretary of State Pompeo has described as a ‘classic communist disinformation effort,’ the Chinese government, aided by the World Health Organization, appears to have intentionally misled the world over the last six months.”

The current U.S. death toll from this coronavirus is over 80,000 and the pandemic’s economic devastation has caused the unemployment rate to skyrocket from 3.5 percent in February to its current rate of 14.7 percent. The Chinese government’s mishandling and deliberate deception has caused hardship for millions of Americans.

In addition to South Carolina, Attorney General Cameron joined attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia in signing in the letter.

You can read the letter to Congress here.