Professor Marion Koopmans, a leading virologist advising the World Health Organization about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, said the UN agency should never have dismissed the lab leak the…
said the UN agency should never have dismissed the lab leak theory in favor of China’s frozen food origin story.
WHO, which ranked the likelihood of four popular theories, ruled that the natural-origins one was the most likely – and placed a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology as “extremely unlikely” and behind the frozen-food origin theory. that the virus began in a US research facility in Maryland or in imported frozen food packaging.
“The strongest evidence is still around zoonotic transmission,” Marietjie Venter, chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, said in June 2022, although the original host, intermediate hosts or how the virus jumped to humans are still unknown. AFP via Getty Images
The intelligence community was unable to conclusively determine whether the virus had jumped to humans via bats or escaped the research facility in Wuhan.
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