The two most significant articles promoting the “natural origins” theory for the COVID-19 outbreak originated from scientists who were part of a response team of “experts” brought in by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine (NASEM), in response to a request from a White House official.
(L-R) Thea Fischer, Marion Koopmans, Peter Daszak and other members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, leave the Hilton Wuhan Optics Valley Hotel in Wuhan, on Jan. 29, 2021. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
These influential articles were used extensively by media organizations to push the natural origins theory, while simultaneously deriding alternative theories including that of a possible lab leak as conspiracy theories.
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More than 47,000 wild animals were sold in the Chinese city of Wuhan in the two and a half years before the first confirmed Covid-19 cluster was found there, a new study showed, providing critical new evidence that the coronavirus could have spread naturally from animals to humans.
The study, published in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, revealed that the wild animals, including 31 protected species, were often butchered on site in markets, and stored in the kinds of cramped, unhygienic conditions that can allow viruses to hop species.
Those animals included at least four species that scientists say can carry the Covid-19 virus civets, mink, badgers and raccoon dogs according to the study by researchers from the China West Normal University, the University of Oxford and Canada’s University of British Columbia.
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There is growing support among the world’s scientific community fully exploring the possibility the coronavirus may have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, creating a global outbreak that has killed more than 3.7 million people worldwide.
The theory of laboratory leakage was largely sidelined in public scientific discourse in the early days of the outbreak, after the first cases of COVID-19, a disease caused by the virus, were confirmed in December 2019 in the Chinese city.
In the coming months, observers say the hypothesis was severely linked to the administration of China’s anti-pandemic and anti-xenophobia framework against former US President Donald Trump’s pandemic, and caused an apparent chilling effect on the scientific community.
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