Commentary On April 6, a reporter asked President Joe Biden if he had ever questioned Xi Jinping about reports “that China maybe misled the world at the beginning” of the pandemic. “I have not had that conversation with President Xi,” said Biden, who has not commented on reports about the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and its possible role in the release of the virus that causes COVID-19. Evidence is pointing in that direction. In February, Karen Pauls of the CBC reported that Canada had dismissed Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, a virologist from Tianjin, China, from the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg. As Pauls explained, in 2017–18 Qiu made at least five trips to China, including one to train scientists at the WIV, “which does research with the most deadly pathogens.” According to Canadian government officials, Qiu was acting in response to the WIV’s request for virus samples when she …