The Wuhan Flu?

[OwlHoot]

Covid: Wuhan scientist would '''welcome''' visit probing lab leak theory - BBC News

Yea, right!

It would be like that Bond film when they go to investigate a clandestine nerve gas lab and find the villains sipping tea in comfy sofas in a wood panelled sitting room

[Paddy]

Bump

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...origins-report

"The US and the UK have sharply criticised a World Health Organization report into the beginnings of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, implicitly accusing China of “withholding access to complete, original data and samples”.

Well we wait a year to get access and come out with a report that has discovered nothing.
Glad we pay millions into the WHO budget. And China allowed to get away with this by the rest of the world.

Originally I was sceptical about the lab leak theory but since then I have leaned that the lab is only a few hundred metres from the wet-market and there have been two previous instances of leaks from the lab. Furthermore, there is an unexplained seven generation jump of the virus to get to covid-19 and the only explanation is human interference via a lab. No country is officially going to blame the Wuhan lab least of all the WHO.

[OwlHoot]

.. No country is officially going to blame the Wuhan lab least of all the WHO.

True, and besides not wishing to upset China another reason is that international teams, including from the US, worked at the lab.

So morally they are equally to blame if/as its biosecurity was as ropey as we're led to believe!

[AtW]

China successfully contained the virus by doing what needed to be done - West failed miserably in that, this is by far more important where virus came from - it will happen again in 10-15 years

[BlasterBates]

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-new...mans-for-years

By comparing the available genome sequence data for known coronavirus strains, we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes," said one of the researchers, immunologist Kristian Andersen at Scripps Research.

Two features of the virus, the mutations in the RBD portion of the spike protein and its distinct backbone, rules out laboratory manipulation as a potential origin for SARS-CoV-2.

Of course you can't rule out that it originated from a bat kept at the Lab.

[Paddy]

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday urged a deeper investigation into whether the coronavirus outbreak originated with a leak from a lab, as world leaders pushed for a treaty to prepare for future pandemics.

A report by WHO and Chinese experts, published Tuesday, judged the lab-leak hypothesis highly unlikely, saying the virus behind Covid-19 had probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary animal.

But a potential leak “requires further investigation, potentially with additional missions involving specialist experts”, Tedros said.

He added that the international team had difficulty accessing raw data during the mission to China, demanding “more timely and comprehensive data-sharing” in the future.

The United States, in a statement with 13 allies including Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan and South Korea, voiced concern over the report and said that the mission to China “was significantly delayed and lacked access to complete, original data and samples”.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-new...vid-19-origins