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Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck
2 years, 1 month ago

Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck

LA Times  

Security personnel near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in February 2021. between a group of virologists who assert their research points to a market origin and an alternate group of academics and online sleuths who argue there’s been an attempted coverup of a more likely lab origin.” The …

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New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic
2 years, 4 months ago

New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic

LA Times  

Not long after the World Health Organization and China released a report last year dismissing the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a lab leak, scientists from major research institutions around the world noted the paucity of the published data, and advocated for a rigorous scientific investigation into the pandemic’s origins. “In a city covering more than 3,000 square …

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Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins

Associated Press  

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 …

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Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins

Live Mint  

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 …

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Not December, first case of Covid-19 could have emerged as early as October 2019: Study
3 years, 6 months ago

Not December, first case of Covid-19 could have emerged as early as October 2019: Study

India Today  

The world first came to know about a mysterious outbreak in China on the New Year eve of 2020. Now, a new study claims that the virus that causes Covid-19 started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before it was first reported in Wuhan province. The first official case of Covid-19 reported in China was in …

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Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In
3 years, 8 months ago

Surprising Nuggets From The WHO Report: Our Science Correspondent Digs In

NPR  

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 …

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World Health Organization gets closer to figuring out where COVID-19 came from
3 years, 8 months ago

World Health Organization gets closer to figuring out where COVID-19 came from

Salon  

The World Health Organization released a 120 page report on Tuesday which argues that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began at animal markets, though President Joe Biden's administration raised questions about its conclusions. As the WHO's Peter Ben Embarek told the scientific journal Nature, "we could show the virus was circulating in the market as early as December 2019." "I …

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WHO draft report: Coronavirus likely came from animal, not a lab
3 years, 8 months ago

WHO draft report: Coronavirus likely came from animal, not a lab

CNN  

CNN — Covid-19 probably came to people through an animal, and likely started spreading no more than a month or two before it was noticed in December of 2019, a World Health Organization draft report finds. The report says this is “extremely unlikely.” “There is no record of viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in any laboratory before December 2019, or …

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QnA: WHO experts, Chinese researchers to produce joint report on coronavirus origins
3 years, 10 months ago

QnA: WHO experts, Chinese researchers to produce joint report on coronavirus origins

Firstpost  

A team of experts selected by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic returned last week from Wuhan, China, site of the world’s first outbreak. I don’t know if we were the first foreigners to walk around the Huanan seafood market, which is blocked off even to Chinese citizens. The pictures …

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WHO Dismisses Theory That Virus Escaped From Lab As 'Extremely Unlikely'
3 years, 10 months ago

WHO Dismisses Theory That Virus Escaped From Lab As 'Extremely Unlikely'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A group of World Health Organization researchers called the theory that the coronavirus pandemic is the result of a Chinese lab accident “extremely unlikely” following two weeks of fieldwork looking into the pandemic’s origins. That determination was made after “long, frank, open discussions with researchers and management” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology ― the lab suspected …

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Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan, starts fieldwork to trace virus origins
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan, starts fieldwork to trace virus origins

The Hindu  

Experts from the World Health Organization visited a Wuhan hospital on Friday as the fieldwork began in a closely watched coronavirus origins probe that will take in a food market presumed to be “ground zero” of the pandemic. The team met Chinese officials on Friday and then left their Wuhan hotel in a fleet of cars, trailed by a media …

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