0n the 9th february 2020, thejoint who china mission reported its findings to the world. it concluded that a spill over from an infected animal was the most likely triggerfor the pandemic, followed by the possibility that frozen food came from another country into china, contaminated with sars cov 2, and then a laboratory incident was at the bottom of the list of hypotheses, described as extremely unlikely. what we were hearing as a result of the investigation was that this was definitely not a laboratory related incident. that is the way it was interpreted. we ve got to remember full access was not granted to the team to laboratory records. and thatjust raises some questions as to why the laboratory involvement was rated as extremely unlikely. i think that is over calling it. i think it is less likely, not extremely unlikely. professor gupta was one of 18
covid-19, but this is raising new debate about the origins of the covid-19 pandemic. what do you make of all of this? you know, rosemary, i think we need a lot more information to understand what this really means. i think for many this might seem like a red flag that you have three people who are hospitalized from that same lab. i do think it s important to understand that in the chinese context people have a lower threshold to go to the hospital for what we might be considered a cough or cold, we could go to urgent care or to our regular doctor and for a number of reasons, some of them cultural, they might present to a hospital. i think it s important not to read more into that than there is evidence for. i think what we need to know are details like what are the lab safety logs showing, other laboratory records, could we get access to the hospital care records, the patient care records for those three lab