They also issued a harsh rebuke of US intelligence agencies, whom they accused of misleading the public and downplaying information when they suggested the virus likely had no bioweapon origins.
British and American researchers have scored each country with a high security pathogen lab and found several, including China, ranked poorly for rules on manipulating viruses like Covid.
EXCLUSIVE: Critics of the research, carried out by Imperial College London, called it insanity and warned the lab trials could, in theory, unleash a new viral threat.
The world is trying to recover from COVID-19, the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu, and a lot of questions remain concerning the origins of the virus and the role of U.S. taxpayer-funded research in China. Nonetheless, the National Institutes of Health recently awarded $650,000 to EcoHealth Alliance, the nongovernmental organization that’s at the center of a major and unresolved international controversy. Some nerve!