It is hard to imagine China being more cooperative in 2023...but one can always hope.
It appears that the lab leak hypothesis is not the conspiracy theory “experts” asserted it was in 2020 and 2021. Now, the chief of the World Health Organization is pushing China to offer more information on the origins of COVID-19 and is ready to send a“We’re pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their bilateral meetings — [to urge Beijing] to co-operate,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “We have already asked in writing to give us information . . .
The two most prominent theories envisage either a zoonotic jump from animals to humans via Wuhan’s wet food markets or contagion stemming from an accidental leak from the city’s virology laboratory. But no scientific consensus has emerged from the debate, and Tedros reiterated that all options remained “on the table”.:
The report indicates that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was not the original source of the outbreak. “On the origin study, since they are not giving us full access, we started discussions in private and then when they refused to cooperate, we made it public,” Dr Tedros said. “If we know [the origin], then we can prevent the next one. So it’s science.
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