Where did the lab leak theory come from?
One theory emerged early and then quickly retreated from mainstream scientific discourse: the lab leak theory. It’s a theory that hinges on two important facts: one, that the first outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, China. And two, that Wuhan is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab that studies active coronaviruses.
When is the lab leak 2021?
Security personnel gather near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 . ( Ng Han Guan / AP Photo )
What does it mean when there are no accidents in the lab?
If there are no accidents ever in the lab, that means you're not doing any experiments. And so, in the case of the first SARS virus. It escaped from a lab in Singapore, it escaped from BSL-4 in Taiwan, it escaped about 4 times from a single lab in Beijing when it was being studied back in 2004.
Who wrote the first draft of the Lancet letter?
BROOKE GLADSTONE The February 2020 letter in Lancet, the first draft of it was written by a Peter Daszak, who actually had a stake of a kind in the Wuhan lab. ALINA CHAN Peter Daszak, he's the president of an equal health alliance, a nonprofit organization based in New York.
Is Wuhan a lab?
And two, that Wuhan is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab that studies active coronaviruses. That a leak from the lab could have been the source of COVID-19 was swatted away quickly, relegated to the margins of scientific discourse and inquiry. That is, until recently. On May 14, a group of 18 prominent scientists, ...
Is a lab leak hypothesis plausible?
Then report, it was the trigger for all scientists to say we need to speak up, say that a lab-leak hypothesis is still plausible and worth investigating.
Is there a lab leak in Gladstone?
ALINA CHAN There was some scientists who came out very strong at the beginning of the pandemic, when barely anything was known about the virus, said that it's clear that this is from nature. No lab-based scenario is plausible.
