The World Health Organization has laid out its plan for a second investigation into the origins of COVID-19. But why should we expect this one to be any different from the first?

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has at least recognized that the initial WHO investigation was insufficient, stating that there was a “premature push” to dismiss the possibility that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He has since laid out plans for a new investigation, which includes “audits of relevant laboratories and research institutions operating in the area of the initial human cases identified in December 2019.”