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Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: The political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel.
In what follows I will sort through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened, and provide readers with the evidence to make their own judgments. I will then try to assess the complex issue of blame, which starts with, but extends far beyond, the government of China.
2:33 pm UTC May. 4, 2021
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Nurse Natasha Garcia prepares a lollipop and an I Got My COVID-19 Vaccine sticker for a recipient in a mobile clinic set up in the parking lot of a shopping center in Orange, Calif., April 29, 2021.
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SAN FRANCISCO – It may not take true herd immunity to see a dramatic drop in COVID-19 cases. Some researchers say another 30 million to 40 million first shots could be enough for the United States to reach a vaccine tipping point and containment of the disease caused by the coronavirus. It s just another 10% to 15% more people, said Dr. Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.