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WHO suggests it won't continue looking into coronavirus Wuhan lab escape hypothesis
2021-02-09
[Washington Examiner] The head of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of COVID-19 suggested the WHO would not continue investigating the hypothesis that the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab, deeming it an "extremely unlikely" possibility.

China had long done its utmost to thwart investigations into the origins of the virus, which subsequently turned into the pandemic that has killed 2.32 million people around the world, and the Trump administration withdrew from the WHO in 2020, claiming that the United Nations agency was incompetent and influenced by China, although the Biden administration rejoined it.

A WHO joint investigation with Chinese officials was conducted over the past couple of weeks.

Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the visiting WHO team in Wuhan and a WHO program manager specializing in food safety and animal diseases, announced at a press conference on Monday that the WHO had considered four main hypotheses on the pathway for the virus to be introduced to the human population: direct transmission from an animal species to the human population, transmission through an intermediate host species, transmission through the trade of cold-chain products or frozen foods, and a "laboratory-related incident."

He said a jump from an animal to another animal to humans was the most likely infection vector, and he also claimed that an accidental release from a Wuhan lab was extremely unlikely, indicating that the possibility wouldn’t be further scrutinized.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#5  And they won’t look at next year’s viral release from China either.
Posted by: Glenmore    2021-02-09 19:51  

#4  thinking we need a new category for Bribes solicited and received. "Check cleared" works.
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-02-09 14:53  

#3  ^^^ ding ding ding
Posted by: Chris   2021-02-09 12:56  

#2  Checks cleared.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-02-09 12:37  

#1  WHO is right. I'm convinced.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-09 11:42  

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