As international researchers have tried to solve the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, vital clues from the Wuhan market have been withheld.
, their task has been made monumentally more difficult due to the fact that vital clues have been withheld.
“These data could have and should have been shared three years ago,” said Ghebreyesus. “We continue to call on China to be transparent in sharing data and to conduct the necessary investigations and share the results. Understanding how the pandemic began remains both a moral and scientific imperative.”neither a raccoon nor a dog
While that data was online, researchers from a number of countries downloaded it in order to do their own analyses.When the WHO reached out to the Chinese research team regarding the disappearance, they were told that the data had been restricted to allow updates, pending an update of the research paper itself.
Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, likened solving the coronavirus origin mystery to trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle without ever seeing the actual picture of the finished product on the box cover. For three years, global researchers had been trying to build this picture with puzzle pieces missing from what might have been the epicentre of the pandemic. And until the data from the samples taken at Huanan market was uploaded in late January, they didn’t know those puzzle pieces existed.
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