Even now, the World Health Organization can’t resist covering for China. The latest: Dr. Mike Ryan, its top emergency expert, called claims that the coronavirus escaped from that Wuhan lab purely “speculative.”

More, he complained that Washington hadn’t shared with WHO “any data or specific evidence.”

Yet WHO itself can only speculate: Its experts haven’t been in the country since February, and China won’t let them enter to investigate COVID-19’s origins. Which is evidence of a sort, actually.

This follows months of WHO’s enabling of Beijing’s lies, as Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised China’s “transparency,” gave the WHO seal of approval to false Chinese statistics and refused to declare a pandemic until March.

Meanwhile, the multinational Five Eyes intelligence dossier that leaked last week outlines major Beijing duplicity from the start, from destroying evidence to “disappearing” whistleblowers.

Whatever the origins of the virus, WHO’s rush to make that claim just shows that it still puts defending China’s Communist regime over protecting global health.