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Mar 1, 2023 · 1 March 2023. Getty Images. The lab-leak theory has been strongly rejected by China. More than three years after Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the...
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It remains unknown how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated, but many scientists think a natural spillover is most likely. Online posts have cited unnamed sources to claim that scientists in Wuhan, China, were the first to get sick with COVID-19. But U.S. intelligence says the researchers’ symptoms were non-specific or inconsistent with COVID-...
Since the beginning of the pandemic, people have wondered how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, came to be. Did it come from a wild or farmed animal, infected upstream by a bat, as previous pandemics and the early case ties to a wet market would suggest? Or did it come from a lab, particularly the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV...
Various versions of the “sick” lab workers rumor have been circulating for at least three years. As French biologist Flo Débarre detailed in a Twitter thread, the first mention of a sick worker came in April 2020, when John Roberts of Fox News said during a coronavirus briefing that “multiple sources are telling Fox News” that the pandemic began wi...
Even after the IC report failed to substantiate the claims about the lab workers, posts on social media were still circulating the misinformation. Two YouTube videos, one falsely headlined “Wuhan Lab Leak Theory CONFIRMED” and anotherreferring to “bombshell revelations” and “explosive details on patient zero,” were still getting thousands of views ...
Worobey, Michael et al. “The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Science. 26 Jul 2022. Crits-Christoph, Alex et al. “Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, Wuhan: Analysis and interpretation of data released by the Chines...
Aug 14, 2022 · The absence of a definitive animal source has been taken as tacit support for counter claims that SARS-CoV-2 in fact “leaked” from a scientific laboratory – the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Sep 28, 2021 · Lab-leak theorists find this significant, because it’s 7.5 miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which does research on bat viruses. Business. Column: The lab-leak origin claim for...
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Mar 2, 2023 · One Instagram post claimed that the Energy Department “confirms Covid came from a Wuhan lab leak,” and another wrongly stated that “US GOV finally admits that COVID started in the Wuhan Lab...
Jun 3, 2021 · Government scientists are now seriously looking at whether the virus escaped from a virology lab in Wuhan, China. That was a theory that was pretty much shot down by leading pandemic...
Jul 8, 2021 · For most of 2020, the notion that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, was treated as a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory. Only conservative news media sympathetic to President Donald Trump and a few lonely reports dared suggest otherwise.
