helped lead two of the studies and has been at the forefront of the search for the origins of the pandemic. He has spent his career tracking down the origins of pandemics, including the origin of HIV and the 1918 flu.a letter calling for an investigation into the lab-leak theory. But then, through his own investigation, he quickly found data supporting an animal origin.
We analyzed a leaked report from the Chinese CDC detailing the results of this environmental sampling. Virtually all of the findings in the report matched what was in the World Health Organization's report. But there was some extra information in the leaked report. For example, there was information not just on which stalls had virus in them — or had samples positive for SARS-CoV-2 — but also how many samples in a given stall yielded positive results.
So now we know that when the national public health authorities shut down the market and then sampled the surfaces there, one of the surfaces positive for SARS-CoV-2 was a metal cage in a back room., had been taken to the Huanan market several years before the pandemic and shown raccoon dogs in one of the stalls. He was told,"This is the kind of place that has the ingredients for cross-species transmission of dangerous pathogens.
And at the end of our sleuth work, we checked the GPS coordinates on his camera, and we find that he took the photo at the same stall, where five samples tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.Loading...These two photos, taken in 2014 by scientist Edward Holmes, show raccoon dogs and unknown birds caged in the southwest corner of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China.
This is horrific. The “science” reporter has a clear bias and the interviewer is lazy. Saying the sampled virus ‘could not have evolved’ in humans proves nothing. Literally NO SCIENTISTS claim it evolved in humans. It is an empty statement made to mislead the listeners.
you're a joke
What they do not say is: Virus created in the lab AND released in the market. This would make both theories true.
Always work from a hypothesis. Science pursues. Yet many loud visible officials, dismissed both the possibility, & the layered Wuhan circumstances and further demonized any who studied. Silence when WHO charade had Daszak on “investigative” team.COVID19
BULLSHIT!
Let’s pretend it’s not a sure thing. Are we still “conspiracy theorists” if we (along with President Biden’s Intel agencies) think it might be a possibility? What day you NPR? Or should we be banned on Twitter and censored.
The fact that agency are changing their position speaks volumes. Knowing that their employers, the government, has been peddling lies.
Lol npr in damage control mode
You're still with this
Good cover job for the communist party.
Would NPR report news of Covid 19 being due to a leak from the Wuhan lab if irrefutable evidence was proven? Why is NPR ignoring the fact China shut down domestic flights from Hubei province, but continued to allow international flights to leave and spread Covid?
What conservatives don’t seem to understand is that most reasonable people would accept this explanation if it was proven true, but there still isn’t a consensus. No matter how bad they want it to be true, it’s still not fact. That is also why MSM hasn’t reported it as fact.
'Scientists have strong evidence of animal spillover at a market.' Hogwash. The Rasmussen paper is absolutely blown out of the water by ascertainment bias. The dataset she and her colleagues rely upon filtered out any early cases NOT related to the market.
The evidence leans towards lab leak.
should not be called intelligence
Scientists have no evidence of a wet market. That kind of mutation doesn’t occur naturally.
What's the strong evidence of spillover at the market? Isn't the lab relatively close to the market anyway, making that a confounding variable? Isn't the notion that the lab was specifically working on modifying SARS viruses that are very similar to COVID-19 'strong evidence?'
They don't want it known that we had Chinese nationals working in our biotech labs during the Obama administration. The COVID virus came from us stolen by agents of China. Taken to Wuhan supported by Slouchy.
this assertion triggers the American Right as much as school shootings, undrinkable water, & police brutality trigger the American Left (and the rest of the globe). curious.
They do have evidence of an animal 'spill over' at the Wuhan market? When or who provided that evidence? They also have evidence from an escaped Wuhan lab worker to contradict the evidence handed over by DC 's Chinese handlers.
bullshit youre running cover youre all complicit and the public is finding out the leaps in proteomic variation between wild animal strains and the covid-19 virus are completely unexplainable by natural mutation dont piss on us and insist that its raining
Sure if you consider the fact no host animal has ever been found then sure there is strong evidence. Love NPR doing the propaganda work of the CCP.
But we’ll never hear this from the new GOP panel with their foregone conclusion.
It was a lab leak. It’s undeniable. NPR owes MANY retractions and apologies…
美国黔驴技穷，天天炒冷饭，可笑的是还是撒谎的，我们真的为美国人感到可怜，天天听的是谎言！
The evidence in the study NPR cites: -The initial victims were near the market -The virus was near the market -The market had animals -The people were near the animals The study also states: 'There are several limitations to our study.'
You realize this is going viral again because someone wants to blame China for World War III. ☕️ So ask yourself who really is pushing the narrative? China, Russia, America, or big business Corperations that will make millions off this war? Hymmm I wonder who will profit most?🧐
Oh, and the Chinese found out about the virus in October, and didn't announce it until December. Normal behavior.
Me looking for that strong evidence.
What’s a bigger way to waste taxpayer money than NPR?
If 'scientists' have so much incontrovertible evidence... make it public. Because no one else seems to have seen any of it.
Man, can you people stop 🤥 lying… what is the strong evidence? That fauchi said so?
Why is the establishment so worried it was from a lab? Now NPR is more informed than 2 intelligence offices? What’s the confidence level it spontaneously appeared in bat soup?
Covid came from the lab in Wuhan. There is zero evidence of a species jump. But sadly we will never get to the bottom of it because China destroyed all the evidence or will not allow anyone to see it. is displaying such poor journalism
OMG. NPR…. You guys are a clown show. If you guys think this came from a wet market, well, you need a major group clue transplant.
NPR attempts a fig leaf to cover its propagation of false information to the public. NPR is not a trustworthy source of information.
Hard to watch NPR become a propaganda outlet for the Chinese government. Americans should not be supporting this.
NPR continues to push the idea that 'lab leak' is incompatible with 'animal origin.' It's not.
still trying to spread misinformation. The enemy of the people.
Yes. rupertmurdoch & his WSJ should be shamed.
Fbi Director Wray says it was so shutty
Thanks for having a much more responsible headline than the wsj article.
What I want to know is why the Department of Energy is putting out analysis and opinions regarding the issue. Do they handle our bioweapons program or something? What expertise would they have on the issue that would enable them to release a statement about it?
...the Right has succeeded in their 40-year project of making any logical discourse impossible...
Stop lying. Scientists have ABSOLUTELY NO evidence of animal spillover at a market.
one agency literally based it on the other and the first agency based it on ?
There is NO evidence of any animal transfer to humans. LIARS