AYLIN WOODWARD, BUSINESS INSIDER
27 MAY 2021
It s the theory that refuses to die: Might the coronavirus have leaked out of a Chinese lab?
As long as the mystery of the pandemic s origin remains unsolved, the question will persist. Increasingly, global leaders are calling for more thorough investigations into the possibility.
That group includes President Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.
Though a month-long WHO investigation in the city of Wuhan concluded that the coronavirus most likely spilled over to people from animals – possibly at wildlife farms – the group found no definitive proof of that. Nor could it rule out a lab leak.
The idea the coronavirus leaked from a lab hasn t been disproved, though a WHO report said it was unlikely. The virus probably jumped to people from animals.