Wendy Tuohy16:43, Jul 04 2021
JASON SOUTH/Sydney Morning Herald
Virologist Danielle Anderson was attacked by global conspiracy theorists for questioning claims that the coronavirus leaked from a lab.
Before she agreed to run a fact check on a February 2020 article claiming Covid-19 probably leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology as part of Chinese bioweapons research, Australian virologist Danielle Anderson was relatively unknown outside her highly specialised field. Dr Anderson, who has extensive experience in bat-born virus research, was one of two scientists asked to examine claims in the
New York Post that the People’s Liberation Army had dispatched Major-General Chen Wei to Wuhan “to try and put the genie back in the bottle” after the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaped the lab.