The media suffered a credibility crisis by prematurely dismissing the COVID lab leak theory and a new book puts a spotlight on why so many people wanted it shut down altogether.
In May 2018, unsterilized laboratory wastewater from the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, spewed out the top of a rusty 50,000-gallon outdoor tank holding waste from labs working with Ebola, anthrax, and other lethal pathogens.
The news has reignited the overheated public debate over the two prevailing hypotheses for the origin of Covid-19, but the case remains far from closed