China Refutes Wuhan Lab Leak Theory as Researchers Illness Fuels Debate About COVID-19 Origin
On 5/24/21 at 12:11 PM EDT
On Sunday,
The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Wuhan lab were hospitalized in November 2019, according to a U.S. intelligence report obtained by the newspaper. The report follows a State Department fact sheet issued in former President Donald Trump s final days that said researchers had gotten sick in fall 2019 and comes as scientists are pushing for additional investigations into the coronavirus s origin.
Asked about the
Journal s story during Monday s briefing, Zhao Lijian, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson, pointed reporters to a statement the lab issued in March. In it, he said, the lab stated that personnel were not exposed to the virus before December 30 the date China reported cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) and a zero infection record was maintained among staff and graduate students.
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Dr. Joxelin Flores Taborda, who is based in Santiago, Chile, got her second dose of Coronavac last week. She had a little headache afterward. But “a good headache,” she called it. “I was thinking, ‘The vaccine is doing something inside me.’”
Flores is a pediatrician who specializes in pulmonology. She and her colleagues who work in health care were among the first to receive vaccines at the start of Chile’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign in early February.