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The WHO is restarting its investigation into whether COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, report says
The WHO is building a new team of 20 specialists in lab safety, biosecurity, and animal diseases, T…
Bill Bostock
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After 3 months of investigations, the intelligence community still can't determine the coronavirus' origin
"We should not even be thinking about closing the book or backing off, but rather ratcheting up the…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A lab leak in Wuhan versus a natural hop from bats: Evidence for each theory of the coronavirus pandemic's origin
A US intelligence report found that staff at a Wuhan lab fell ill just before the pandemic, fueling…
Aylin Woodward
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A lab leak in Wuhan remains a 'viable' theory for the coronavirus' origin, an international group of scientists says
The coronavirus' origin remains a mystery. So the idea that it was accidentally released from a lab…
Aylin Woodward
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An Australian scientist who was the only foreigner at the Wuhan virus lab says she never got COVID-19 and doesn't believe the center leaked it
Danielle Anderson, 42, worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology's BSL-4 lab until November 2019. S…
Bill Bostock
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Even if the coronavirus did leak from a Wuhan lab, that wouldn't necessarily mean it was engineered
Researchers in Wuhan collected samples of bat viruses closely related to the coronavirus prior to t…
Aylin Woodward
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US officials may have avoided the coronavirus lab-leak theory to avoid associations with controversial gain-of-function research
The US has funded labs that alter coronaviruses for research. That may have led officials to avoid …
Aria Bendix
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Fauci says China should share the medical records of Wuhan lab staff who were ill in fall 2019: 'What did they get sick with?'
An intelligence report found that staff at a Wuhan lab got sick before the pandemic, fueling specul…
Aylin Woodward
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A leading scientist said the world needs to understand the origins of COVID-19 to prevent 'COVID-26 and COVID-32,' adding to growing calls to investigate the lab-leak theory
"There's going to be covid-26 and covid-32 unless we fully understand the origins of covid-19," Pet…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A WHO investigation into the coronavirus' origins points the finger at animals in Chinese wildlife farms
A WHO team investigated the coronavirus' origins. The report, obtained by the AP, suggests it's "ex…
Aylin Woodward
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Trump's CDC director is perpetuating baseless claims that the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab
Former CDC director Robert Redfield told CNN that he believes the coronavirus first infected a lab …
Aylin Woodward
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WHO and Chinese scientists concluded it's 'extremely unlikely' the coronavirus leaked from a lab, after a 4-week investigation
WHO experts spent weeks searching Wuhan to determine the origins of the new coronavirus. They dismi…
Aylin Woodward
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The WHO's leader said its investigation into whether the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab was not 'extensive enough'
The WHO investigation didn't conduct a full audit of any Wuhan labs. It's unlikely that's where the…
Aylin Woodward
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23% of Americans think the coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab, a survey suggests. Here's why that conspiracy theory is bogus.
New research suggests that 22% to 23% of Americans and Britons believe the coronavirus was engineer…
Aylin Woodward
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A Chinese virologist claimed the coronavirus was 'intentionally' released. Turns out, she works for a group led by Steve Bannon.
A strange paper claims China engineered and released the coronavirus. Its authors work for a group …
Aylin Woodward
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China threatened historians, telling them to ignore sources that highlight its botched early COVID-19 response
Chinese historians have been told to ignore sources like 'Wuhan Diary,' which chronicled China's ea…
Mia Jankowicz
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The Chinese CDC now says the coronavirus didn't jump to people at the Wuhan wet market — instead, it was the site of a super-spreader event
The origin of the new coronavirus still isn't known. But according to the Chinese CDC, it isn't the…
Aylin Woodward
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A US researcher who worked with a Wuhan virology lab gives 4 reasons why a coronavirus leak would be extremely unlikely
A fringe theory posits that the coronavirus accidentally leaked from a Wuhan lab. But a US research…
Aylin Woodward
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It's far more likely that the coronavirus jumped naturally from bats to people than leaked from a lab — at least 4 other viruses did the same thing in the last 45 years
Both genetic studies and historical evidence suggest the new coronavirus jumped naturally from anim…
Aylin Woodward
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China nominated the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the nation's top science award amid mounting suspicions that COVID was made and leaked from its labs
The nomination came after Zhao Lijian, China's top foreign ministry spokesman, said the lab deserve…