The Department of Homeland Security has offered an explanation as to why the Chinese Communist Party withheld critical information about the Wuhan Virus.

They did it so they could hoard medical supplies.

According to Town Hall:

A Department of Homeland Security intelligence report found the Chinese government likely hid information about the severity of the coronavirus in order to have time to hoard medical supplies.

The Chinese government “intentionally concealed the severity” of COVID-19 in early January, the four page report said, according to the Associated Press. 

“We further assess the Chinese Government attempted to hide its actions by denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data,” the report added.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on ABC’s “This Week” that at this time there is no reason to believe the virus was spread intentionally. He did note, however, that “China has a history of infecting the world, and they have a history of running substandard laboratories.”

Pompeo has also stated that the Chinese have been responsible in the past for infecting the world as a result of failures by a Chinese lab.