Did COVID-19 Leak from a Wuhan Lab? Reason.com

In March, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called into question the organization’s report on the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The stage-managed investigation didn’t take place until a year after the pandemic started, and reckoned that it’s most likely that the virus jumped to humans from animal species, deeming the lab leak hypothesis extremely unlikely. Tedros observed, “Although the team has concluded that a laboratory leak is the least likely hypothesis, this requires further investigation, potentially with additional missions involving specialist experts, which I am ready to deploy.”

“I do not believe that this assessment was extensive enough. Further data and studies will be needed to reach more robust conclusions,” he added, noting that “all hypotheses remain on the table.” For his troubles, Chinese officials are suggesting that Tedros’ comments are being used by “some forces with ulterior motives [that] are challenging the authority of and science behind the joint report.” But if the Chinese government has nothing to hide, why has it stymied investigations into the origin of the virus from the very beginning of the pandemic?

 

via reason.com

I still remember with a slight headache the little dive bar Ron Bailey took me to nearly 30 years ago where he forced me to drink innumerable scotches and water, and not that much water. Journalists. You just can’t trust ’em. Ron is one of the good ones though.