Pandemic Growing Uncertainty Over COVID-19’s Origin Deepens Rift Despite the hot start for U.S. agricultural exports to China in 2021, Beijing’s lack of transparency in investigating the origins of COVID-19 continues to draw scrutiny. More news reports concerning researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) becoming ill and seeking hospital care in November 2019 have resulted in skeptical health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci and other researchers in Europe to question the thoroughness of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) joint report with colleagues in China about the pandemic’s origins. Previously, the notion that the disease had “escaped” WIV due to poor biohazard security practices an...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.