Harvard biology shakes: Covid spread from the Wuhan laboratory

2024-06-05 09:09:21Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Harvard biology shakes: Covid spread from the Wuhan laboratory

The Covid pandemic happened because a virus emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. "If that were the case, it would be the costliest accident in the history of science," MIT and Harvard molecular biologist Alina Chan said in an editorial in the New York Times (NYT), offering five explanations for the thesis. her.

The virus that caused the pandemic "appeared in Wuhan, the city where the world's most important laboratory for Sars-type viruses is located," explains Chan, according to which "a year before the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute, working with American partners, had proposed the creation of viruses with the distinctive characteristics of Sars-CoV-2."

According to her, the proposal described a plan to create viruses remarkably similar to Covid. Chan points out that "the American partners were probably aware of only part of the research conducted in Wuhan.

According to US intelligence sources, some of the research conducted by the institute was classified or conducted with or for the Chinese military."

"The Wuhan laboratory carried out the work under low biosafety conditions that could not have an airborne virus as contagious as Sars-CoV-2," Chan again notes.

She points out that the hypothesis that Covid-19 emerged from the seafood market in Wuhan is not supported by strong evidence.

"There is still a lack of clear evidence that would be expected if the virus had emerged from the wildlife trade."


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