It was on Dec 30, 2019, that Wuhan Institute of Virology's Principal Investigator & Coronavirus expert Shi Zhengli received her first call about SARS-CoV-2
WHO s COVID origin probe lacks credibility, scientists warn: Sounding alarm on team s public dismissal of lab leak theory, experts cite investigators fixed views, lack of access.
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The team, led by an international cohort of researchers, said last week that it was extremely unlikely that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an infectious disease laboratory that has for years conducted experiments with coronaviruses some of it funded by the U.S. government.
The WIV is located just a few kilometers away from the Wuhan city wet market identified as the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. A growing number of skeptics have cited the lab s well-documented research into the dangers that bat-borne coronaviruses posed to human beings as a likely source for the virus. But the WHO team concluded that theory should not be considered as an avenue of future study.