Danish WHO Chief Says COVID Patient Zero Was Likely Wuhan Lab Worker Summit News

Peter Embarek, who spearheaded a WHO team sent to investigate the lab earlier this year, told Danish television that the likely source of the pandemic was someone infected by a bat during fieldwork or at one of the laboratories in Wuhan.

This is where the virus jumps directly from a bat to a human, reports Denmark s TV 2 News. In that case, it would then be a laboratory worker instead of a random villager or other person who has regular contact with bats. So it is actually in the probable category.

The report notes that the type of bat involved in passing on the infection, the horse shoe bat, was only present inside the Wuhan lab and does not live naturally in the general Wuhan area.

An employee who was infected in the field by taking samples falls under one of the probable hypotheses, said Embarek.

Embarek s new assessment contradicts the results of the WHO investigation, which originally asserted that the lab leak origin was extremely unlikely.

via summit.news

Note that Dr. Embarek is suggesting a natural leap from bat to human, rather than an escape by a designed virus (presumably a product of gain-of-function research) such as that suggested by Brett Weinstein and others. Personally, I think it’s unlikely we will ever know for sure where this virus came from, which is most unfortunate. We don’t even know where exactly Ebola comes from, though our furry friends the bats may well be involved, and the CCP doesn’t (as yet) have any interest in that very nasty bug. (Dont’ forget the kerfuffle over the Canadian lab that sent some Ebola samples to the PRC some months ago.) The CCP could have lots of reasons for denying the WHO the chance to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, including security concerns over their, uh, robust research into viruses with biowarfare potential carried out by the PLA in Wuhan and elsewhere.

H/t MG.