Stalemate on figuring out the origins of #SARSCoV2 -- from @WHO :
A team of scientists convened by the WHO to determine the origins of #COVID19 & future outbreaks says a theory that the virus escaped from a lab merits “further investigations.”
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washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/…
A team of scientists convened by the WHO to determine the origins of #COVID19 & future outbreaks says a theory that the virus escaped from a lab merits “further investigations.”
BUT...MORE
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/…
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The WHO-backed team said they had not received any new data that would allow them to better evaluate the lab-leak theory, & #Brazil #China & #Russia objected to further investigation.
Meanwhile, the report said avail data show that #SARSCoV2 had a zoonotic origin.
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The WHO-backed team said they had not received any new data that would allow them to better evaluate the lab-leak theory, & #Brazil #China & #Russia objected to further investigation.
Meanwhile, the report said avail data show that #SARSCoV2 had a zoonotic origin.
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"which means it spread between animals in a natural setting, but that neither the animal that infected humans nor the place where this infection occurred could currently be identified."
Which REALLY means that debate over the origins of #SARSCoV2 remains a political football.
"which means it spread between animals in a natural setting, but that neither the animal that infected humans nor the place where this infection occurred could currently be identified."
Which REALLY means that debate over the origins of #SARSCoV2 remains a political football.
In its 43-page report cdn.who.int/media/docs/def… the team lays out a wish list of biological samples, patient data & epidemiology it needs from Wuhan to reckon the origin of #SARSCoV2 -- a list that features items #China has long-since lost, never had, or won't provide.
Dead end?
Dead end?
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