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Mar 17, 2023 · The Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2021. The Energy Department concluded with “low confidence” that an accidental laboratory leak most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic. But new genetic...
1 March 2023. Share. 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...
- Huanan Market Was The Pandemic Epicentre
- Animal Spillover
- Death Knell For The Lab Leak Theory
- Wounds That May Never Be Healed
An analysis of the geographic locations of the earliest known COVID cases – dating to December 2019 – revealed a strong clustering around the Huanan market. This was true not only for people who worked at or visited the market, but also for those who had no links to it. Although there will be many missing cases, there’s no evidence of widespread sa...
SARS-CoV-2 has evolved into an array of lineages, some familiar to us as the “variants of concern” (what we call Delta, Omicron and so on). The first split in the SARS-CoV-2 family tree – between the “A” and “B” lineages – occurred very early in the pandemic. Both lineages have an epicentre at the market and both were detected there. Further analys...
The lab leak theory rests on an unfortunate coincidence: that SARS-CoV-2 emerged in a city with a laboratory that works on bat coronaviruses. Some of these bat coronaviruses are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. But not close enough to be direct ancestors. Sadly, the focus on the Wuhan Institute of Virology has distracted us from a far more important ...
The acrid stench of xenophobia lingers over much of this discussion. Fervent dismissals by the Chinese scientists of anything untoward are blithely cast as lies. Yet during this crucial period these same scientists were going to international conferences and welcoming visitors. Do we honestly believe they would have such a pathological disdain for ...
May 27, 2021 · May 27, 2021. In today’s edition of the Morning newsletter, David Leonhardt offers a guide to the newly revived debate over the idea that the coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Chinese...
Jun 4, 2021 · Months after a World Health Organization investigation deemed it “extremely unlikely” that the novel coronavirus escaped accidentally from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the idea is back in...
May 27, 2021 · The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was closed in January 2020. Scientists initially believed the outbreak began here, but many experts now doubt that theory. Hector Retamal/Agence...
May 30, 2021 · Since the early weeks of the pandemic, rumours have swirled that coronavirus might have escaped from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Now the theory is again being taken seriously ...
