Wuhan lab-leak theory

Wuhan lab-leak theory

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 * 07 Sep 2021, New details emerge about coronavirus research at Chinese lab, More than 900 pages of materials related to U.S.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept.“This is a road map to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic,” said Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of Covid-19.
 * 28 Aug 2021, (fr) FranceInfo, Covid-19 : ce que l'on sait du rapport des services de renseignement américains sur les origines du virus, Ces services, qui comprennent le FBI et la CIA, ne sont toujours pas en mesure d'identifier la source du Sars-CoV-2, et accusent la Chine de retenir des informations importantes pour cette enquête internationale.
 * 24 Aug 2021, Economist.com, Infections caught in laboratories are surprisingly common, If covid-19 did escape from a lab, it wouldn’t be the first disease to do so.
 * 21 Aug 2021, Economist.com, The world needs a proper investigation into how covid-19 started, China, though, is not keen
 * 13 Aug 2021, (fr) LeSoir.be, Le covid s’est-il échappé d’un laboratoire chinois? Un enquêteur de l’OMS répond, Selon le chef de la mission d’enquête sur l’origine de la pandémie, une fuite de laboratoires est une hypothèse « probable ».Le scientifique pointe finalement qu’aucune des chauve-souris ne vit à l’état sauvage dans la région de Wuhan, et que les seules personnes susceptibles d’avoir approché les chauves-souris soupçonnées d’avoir hébergé le virus à l’origine du Sars-Cov-2 sont des employés des laboratoires de la ville.
 * 13 Aug 2021, Politico.eu, Why the coronavirus lab leak theory won’t go away, The idea that the pandemic began in a laboratory has moved from fringe theory to mainstream
 * 28 Jul 2021, Politico.eu, China hits back after EU official joins call for cooperation on pandemic origins probe, A joint statement asks Beijing ‘to reconsider its decision to not engage in the WHO’s proposal for the next phase of the Covid-19 origins study.’
 * 10 Jun 2021, Politico.eu, EU joins Biden’s call for fresh probe into coronavirus origins, ‘Investigators need complete access,’ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a dig at China.
 * 05 Jun 2021, (fr) LeSoir.be, David Asher: «Une fuite de laboratoire, à ce stade, c’est la seule hypothèse qui ait du sens», David Asher a dirigé de septembre 2020 à janvier 2021 l’enquête du Département d’État sur les origines de la pandémie de Covid-19. Le monde entier a été victime de cette pandémie. Ce n’est pas seulement une tragédie, c’est un crime. Nous devons savoir comment elle s’est répandue. Le rôle de la République populaire de Chine dans cette affaire et la désinformation délibérée pratiquée par les autorités chinoises vis-à-vis du monde entier sont au centre de cette affaire, quelle que soit la façon dont on l’envisage. Le peuple chinois n’est certainement pas responsable.
 * 30 May 2021, TheEconomist.com, Covid-19 deaths in Wuhan seem far higher than the official count, Partial data suggest that the city’s initial outbreak may have been two or three times worse than reported by Chinese officials.
 * 29 May 2021, TheEconomist.com, Assessing the theory that covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, The evidence so far is circumstantial. For most of 2020 scientists and the media tended to treat the likelihood of a leak from a lab as a very small one, with everyday contact—“zoonotic spillover”—overwhelmingly more probable. That has now changed.  The Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc), which also worked on bat coronaviruses, is closer still: a mere 500 metres. A worker or workers in one of these labs could have been infected with a coronavirus being used in research, thus providing that virus with passage to the outside world.
 * 26 May 2021, TheEconomist.com, Joe Biden orders his spooks to investigate the origins of covid-19, How can the world prepare for a future pandemic when it does not know for sure where the current one came from?
 * 26 May 2021, Politico.com, acebook no longer treating 'man-made' Covid as a crackpot idea, Facebook’s policy tweak arrives as support surges in Washington for a fuller investigation into the origins of Covid-19.