What is the World Health Organization good for other than Chinese propaganda?

With the theory that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology now gaining widespread acceptance as a real possibility, the question must be raised again: What exactly is the purpose of rejoining the World Health Organization, which dismissed this theory with little consideration? There are plenty of pundits and so-called journalists who waved off this possibility as a conspiracy theory, in part because it was popularized by Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton. To their discredit, partisanship blinded them, as former writer Donald McNeil has recently admitted . (The same can't be said for my colleagues, whose prescient analysis can…