The World Health Organization has now resorted to threatening those who call out its shameful regurgitation of Chinese communist propaganda.

“If you don’t want any more body bags, you must refrain from politicizing [the coronavirus],” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday. “Please quarantine politicizing COVID.”

The WHO deserves every ounce of criticism it’s received for its role in the coronavirus pandemic. Questioning whether the world would have been better prepared had the WHO not fallen for China’s misinformation campaign isn’t political, and it isn’t unimportant. In fact, it’s absolutely necessary if we are to understand what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.

Thankfully, there are a growing number of public officials willing to stand up to the WHO. Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, is one of them.

“I’m disgusted by that kind of threat from some two-bit, third-rate, international bureaucrat,” Cotton told Fox News. “That’s why Dr. Tedros needs to be fired, and frankly, he needs to be investigated so we can find out just how deeply in China’s pocket he is.”

Cotton has been wrong about a lot of things, but he was right about the coronavirus in January, and he’s right about the WHO now. Instead of demanding accurate information from China, the WHO foolishly parroted the communist regime’s talking points, claiming human-to-human contact would not facilitate the spread of the virus and reporting China’s COVID-19 numbers as fact when it was obvious the regime was lying. The organization also refused to recognize scientific data from Taiwan because China does not view Taiwan as a legitimate nation.

The question is: Why? Why does the WHO refuse to hold China accountable when it is clear the communist regime is responsible for the origination and the subsequent cover-up of this pandemic? Why appease China when the regime’s dishonesty and manipulation has cost the world so much?

These questions deserve answers, and it’s time the rest of the world starts demanding them.