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2020-05-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

WHO doubles down - Sez no proof from US on ‘speculative' claims virus came from Wuhan lab

[France24] 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 toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated," Fauci told the magazine.

"Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that (this virus) evolved in nature and then jumped species," he said.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-05 04:20|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Fauci. WHO. National Geographic. I have no trust in any of these. None.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-05-05 09:58|| 2020-05-05 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Like, wiped with a cloth?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-05 10:10|| 2020-05-05 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 "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 toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,"

Straw man alert!

They did research on bat viruses on bats caught in remote areas of China.

If the lab practiced lax bio-security or, perhaps, if lab employees sold surplus animals to the notorious wet market the virus could have originated from the lab and infected humans without and genetic engineering being involved.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-05-05 15:10|| 2020-05-05 15:10|| Front Page Top

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