{"id":614477,"date":"2023-03-05T07:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/05\/all-covid-origin-theories-including-lab-leak-on-the-table-who-director-says\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:50:03","slug":"all-covid-origin-theories-including-lab-leak-on-the-table-who-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/05\/all-covid-origin-theories-including-lab-leak-on-the-table-who-director-says\/","title":{"rendered":"All Covid Origin Theories\u2014Including Lab Leak\u2014\u2018On The Table,\u2019 WHO Director Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Topline<\/h2>\n

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday the organization is still working to determine the origin of the Covid-19 virus and that \u201call hypotheses\u201d remain on the table, following U.S. reports this week that the most likely cause of the pandemic was a lab leak.<\/p>\n

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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said all Covid origin theories … [+]<\/span> remain on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/fbs-accordion>AFP via Getty Images<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Key Facts<\/h2>\n
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In a press conference<\/a> on Friday, Ghebreyesus said the WHO has \u201cnot abandoned any plans to identify\u201d the origin of the virus.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ghebreyesus said he has spoken to Chinese officials multiple times in recent months, and that the organization is still looking for additional Covid data from China, saying it would be \u201cimpossible\u201d to conclude where exactly the virus originated without additional information.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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His comments come just days after the Department of Energy concluded<\/a> the virus most likely originated from a Chinese lab\u2014a claim that Beijing vehemently denies and scientists speculate<\/a> might not be accurate\u2014though the department admitted its conclusion with low confidence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

FBI Director Christopher Wray reiterated<\/a> that theory in an interview with Fox News this week, saying the virus likely came from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Contra<\/h2>\n

While the Department of Energy concluded Covid likely came from a lab leak and not another source\u2014such as a wet market or from a Chinese biological weapons program\u2014other U.S. officials were not as confident that enough information has been collected to make a definitive determination. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan admitted<\/a> there is \u201cnot a definitive answer\u201d from the \u201cintelligence community\u201d as to where the virus came from.<\/p>\n

Key Background<\/h2>\n

Covid-19 is widely considered to have emerged from Wuhan, China, where the first outbreak of the coronavirus occurred in late 2019 and early 2020\u2014although its specific origin within the city has been a subject of debate throughout the pandemic. One predominant theory among scientists is that the virus jumped from animals to humans in a wet market<\/a> in Wuhan, where vendors sold live mammals. Two studies published in the journal Science <\/em>found most of the first patients who contracted the virus lived close to the market. Some government officials, including former President Donald Trump\u2014asserted the more likely theory is that the virus came from a leak at the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory. Experts, however, remain skeptical about the theory. Researchers in a March 2020 study<\/a> published in Nature Medicine<\/em> said they \u201cdo not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further Reading<\/h2>\n

Covid Likely Originated From Lab Leak, Energy Department Reportedly Finds\u2014But Biden Aide Says There\u2019s No \u2018Definitive Answer\u2019<\/a> (Forbes)<\/p>\n

Covid Lab Leak Theory: Some Government Agencies Believe It\u2014Here\u2019s Why Most Scientists Don\u2019t<\/a> (Forbes)<\/p>\n

Timeline: How The Covid Lab Leak Origin Story Went From ‘Conspiracy Theory’ To Government Debate<\/a> (Forbes)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Brian Bushard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Topline World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday the organization is still working to determine the origin of the Covid-19 virus and that \u201call hypotheses\u201d remain on the table, following U.S. reports this week that the most likely cause of the pandemic was a lab leak. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32379,23939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-covid","category-origin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}