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Again with the laboratory leak, if there was evidence to follow, that'd be great, let's go down that pathway. if the us agencies had come with more information, terrific, let's get on with it and try to assist them. but in terms of taking it further, you then need evidence to go further. 0n the 9th of 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 ...

For this, especially when there is an outpouring of anger. what you see is people saying, who caused covid? it is always over there, it is always them, nobody wants to take the responsibility. in some way i think this might have backfired on the chinese because instead of actually getting more trust in more cooperation, it seems to have led to more scrutiny and more scepticism over, what are you hiding if you are not willing to be more transparent? the who is the un agency the world turns to during international health emergencies but it can't force its member countries to share information. i...

With the who joint studies international lead, also raised questions around whether the international team were pressured into presenting the laboratory leak theory as extremely unlikely, suggesting that this was the only way it was allowed to be featured in the final report. translation: 48 hours before | we were done with the mission, we still hadn't agreed on whether to mention the laboratory in the report. my counterpart and i went out into the hallway and discussed how to resolve the impasse, so we could move on. that is when i said we had to include it or we don't have a report. he agree...

Some kind of waste material coming out of the laboratory. this pandemic has killed at least 4.9 million people. it has turned our lives as we knew them upside down. health systems have been overwhelmed. and families forced to stay apart. there is always politics and blame games in new disease outbreaks, but there are concerns that the massive impact of covid and the geopolitical infighting is severely hindering the science. china still has not shared some of the key data from the earliest days of the pandemic, including information about the very first suspected cases. from the start its leade...

About what exactly type of research was going on at the wuhan institute of virology, which had received some funding from the us. there have been claims scientist may have been carrying out controversial gain of function studies where viruses are manipulated and potentially made more contagious. yes, i believe those experiments were going on because that is what our field does when we are trying to understand the biology of viruses. china has denied these claims, calling them pure lies. the spill—over is probably more likely but there is a significant possibility, nonetheless, that the labor...