Raccoon dogs, hedgehogs, and the wet market: The competing theories for COVID-19's origins

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With the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis gaining prominence within the U.S. intelligence community, various international scientists and some intelligence agencies point to a natural origin for COVID-19, with China baselessly blaming the U.S. military or frozen foods for the pandemic.

FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed last month that the FBI has long believed COVID-19 originated at a Chinese government lab, and it was recently revealed the Energy Department believes with “low confidence” that the coronavirus started at a Wuhan lab.The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an assessment in August 2021 stating that one U.S.

The article cited scientists Kristian Andersen, Eddie Holmes, Michael Worobey, Angela Rasmussen, and Stephen Goldstein as being involved in the discovery or analysis of the alleged Chinese data. The outlet claimed Florence Debarre had discovered that new data had been posted by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on the GISAID genetics website this month but that the data were allegedly removed after international scientists began asking questions about it.

Chinese CDC Director George Gao and dozens of other Chinese scientists had issued a paper apparently based on the same data back in February 2022, which concluded that “the market might have acted as an amplifier” but that “no SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the animal samples from the market.”EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak was a longtime collaborator with the Wuhan lab and its “bat lady” leader Shi Zhengli.

The study touted by Daszak, which pointed to a natural origin for COVID-19, was funded by the Russian government and by the NIH and listed EcoHealth and Daszak as the only U.S. author, along with 11 Russian government-affiliated doctors.Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under former President Donald Trump, testified this month that it was likely that U.S.

President Joe Biden signed into law the “COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023” this month, claiming that “my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security.”The Chinese government long attempted to claim that COVID-19 had come into China via frozen foods in an effort to distance the country from the origins of the pandemic.

Beijing has lashed out amid international criticism that Beijing has not been fully cooperative or transparent in global investigations into the origins of the virus. The evidence is overwhelming that the pandemic began in China, and there is no evidence it originated in the United States or with the U.S. military.

 

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