Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …
More than a year after Covid-19 touched off the worst pandemic in more than a century, scientists have yet to determine its origins. Scientists involved in the WHO-led mission identified four, which they ranked in order of likelihood: LIKELY-TO-VERY LIKELY: the virus spilled over via an “intermediary” host species; POSSIBLE-TO-LIKELY: the virus spilled over to humans directly from an animal …
Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In Enlarge this image toggle caption Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images This week, the World Health Organization finally released its long-awaited report about its investigation into how and where the COVID-19 pandemic began. An "explosive outbreak began in Wuhan in early December 2019" Buried deep …
Hong Kong CNN — The wildlife trade in China is the most likelypathway through which Covid-19 was able to spread from the original animal source, possibly bats, to humans, according to one of the authors of a long-awaited World Health Organization report on the origin of the virus. The report, expected to be released on Tuesday after repeated delays, will …
