Times’s
only problem, because
there have been at least two scientifically credible
findings that have been reported alleging that this
coronavirus had actually occurred in Europe before December
2019. (As will be noted below, the
Wall Street
Journal’s article noted that “WHO Director-General
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the U.N. agency
hadn’t ruled out any hypothesis. ‘I want to clarify that
all hypotheses remain open and require further study,’ he
said in a meeting with diplomats on Thursday.” But the
NYT seems to have been determined to provide its
readers a contrary impression.)
The
Times’s
article stated that