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Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous
8 months ago

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

Associated Press  

BEIJING — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. In a faxed statement, China’s Foreign Ministry defended China’s handling of research into the origins, saying the …

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WHO team head investigating origins of Covid calls for closer look at China lab
3 years, 4 months ago

WHO team head investigating origins of Covid calls for closer look at China lab

Live Mint  

The Danish head of a World Health Organization-led team that traveled to China earlier this year to probe the origins of Covid-19 called for closer scrutiny of a laboratory near the site of the first known cluster of cases at a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. “It’s interesting that the lab relocated on the 2nd of December …

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WHO Covid-19 origin report says virus likely spread to people from an animal – but needs more study
3 years, 8 months ago

WHO Covid-19 origin report says virus likely spread to people from an animal – but needs more study

CNN  

CNN — The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 probably spread to people through an animal, and probably started spreading among humans no more than a month or two before it was noticed in December of 2019, according a new 120-page report from the World Health Organization. The report says introduction through cold food products is considered a “possible pathway” and …

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WHO in China: Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original coronavirus outbreak in 2019
3 years, 10 months ago

WHO in China: Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original coronavirus outbreak in 2019

CNN  

CNN — Investigators from the World Health Organization looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered signs the outbreak was much wider in Wuhan in December 2019 than previously thought, and are urgently seeking access to hundreds of thousands of blood samples from the city that China has not so far let them examine. Ben Embarek, who has …

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China seizes on lack of WHO breakthrough in Wuhan to claim coronavirus vindication
3 years, 10 months ago

China seizes on lack of WHO breakthrough in Wuhan to claim coronavirus vindication

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — Reading Chinese state media coverage, you could be forgiven for thinking the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of Covid-19 had ruled out Wuhan as the potential source of the pandemic. Absolutely.” State media’s take Chinese state media used comments from the fiercely apolitical scientists to vindicate various propaganda priorities, chief of which is the …

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China takes WHO team to Wuhan bat lab at center of coronavirus conspiracies
3 years, 10 months ago

China takes WHO team to Wuhan bat lab at center of coronavirus conspiracies

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — A team of World Health Organization investigators in Wuhan are visiting a laboratory Wednesday that has been the focus of conspiracies and speculation about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, the Wuhan lab team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as China’s “bat woman” for years of virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves, has focused …

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WHO team investigating pandemic visits wet market, receives flu data
3 years, 10 months ago

WHO team investigating pandemic visits wet market, receives flu data

CNN  

CNN — A team of World Health Organization investigators in China researching the origins of the coronavirus tell CNN they now have months of Chinese influenza data which might contain vital clues as to the early spread of the virus. “But it could also be that other places had the same role, and that one was just picked because some …

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