After 3.5 million deaths, a question persists: did COVID-19 escape accidentally from a Wuhan institute rather than leaping from bats or pangolins to humans?
I think I accumulated my first 10 thoughts for our tenth anniversary online. I hope I ll have one big one or 20 new ones in honor of our twentieth anniversary next year, but in the meantime I m going to borrow from previous editions to note the occasion today. It was 19 years ago this weekend 19 years ago today, I think, but maybe tomorrow that John Hinderaker went
A remarkable consensus has emerged in the last few weeks: It’s no longer crazy to think that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a “lab leak” in Wuhan,…
No, the lab-leak theory isnât quite proven.
But there is a clear and verified sequence of events that strongly suggests that this pandemic, which has caused more than 168 million cases and more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide, may well have originated from viruses carried in bats in an abandoned mine that then passed through a Chinese research facility before spreading out of control among the people of Wuhan.
So, back to the beginning:
In April 2012, six miners were assigned to clean bat guano from a copper mineshaft in Tongguan, Mojiang, Yunnan Province, China. This is south-central China, about a 120-mile drive from the border of Laos, and a 195-mile drive to the border of Vietnam.