Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 05 May 2020 09:34 | #
The World Health Organization said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support “speculative” claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.
“We have not received any data or specific evidence from the United States government relating to the purported origin of the virus - so from our perspective, this remains speculative” WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told a virtual briefing.
Scientists believe the killer virus jumped from animals to humans emerging in China late last year, possibly from a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for meat.
Top US epidemiologist Anthony Fauci echoed the WHO’s statement in an interview published Monday evening by National Geographic.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now (the scientific evidence) is very, very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated” Fauci told the magazine.
“Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that (the virus)evolved in nature and then jumped species” he said.
Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 05 May 2020 11:43 | #
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it was “not surprising” that a report of COVID-19 had emerged in December in France earlier than it was thought to have spread there, saying more reports of early cases were possible.
“It’s also possible there are more early cases to be found” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a UN briefing in Geneva. He encouraged other countries to check records for cases in late 2019, saying this would give the world a “new and clearer picture” of the outbreak.
A French hospital which had retested old samples from pneumonia patients discovered that it had treated a man who had COVID-19 as early as December 27, nearly a month before the French government confirmed its first case.
Posted by evidence researchers accidentally spread virus on Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:41 | #
Evidence mounts COVID-19 came from a lab in Wuhan
Coronavirus and China: unconfirmed origin in Wuhan laboratory, but unconvincing denial
Fr24, 3 April
https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/04/coronavirus-and-china-unconfirmed-origin-in-wuhan-laboratory-but-unconvincing-denial.html