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What really caused Covid?
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airiefairie"We want to know what led to this so we can hopefully try and prevent something like this from happening in the future."
These words by Dr. David Relman, an infectious disease expert and microbiologist at Stanford University, pretty much sum up the overall conversation surrounding the origins of COVID-19 in 2021. Did come from a lab? Was it an inter-species transfer? Or maybe something else? Surely in time the answer will become clearer, right?
But now, 3 years after the start of the pandemic which still disrupts our daily lives, the US is only adding more uncertainty about what really happened in Wuhan in late 2019. The Department has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab leak in China:
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/covid19-most-likely-caused-by-a-laboratory-leak-says-united-states-energy-department-in-shocking-new-report/news-story/657846c69334b91bec31de96ae88a51d
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These words by Dr. David Relman, an infectious disease expert and microbiologist at Stanford University, pretty much sum up the overall conversation surrounding the origins of COVID-19 in 2021. Did come from a lab? Was it an inter-species transfer? Or maybe something else? Surely in time the answer will become clearer, right?
But now, 3 years after the start of the pandemic which still disrupts our daily lives, the US is only adding more uncertainty about what really happened in Wuhan in late 2019. The Department has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab leak in China:
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/covid19-most-likely-caused-by-a-laboratory-leak-says-united-states-energy-department-in-shocking-new-report/news-story/657846c69334b91bec31de96ae88a51d
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