An Australian scientist who worked at the Wuhan lab in 2019 saw nothing to suggest that’s where Covid-19 came from.
Dr. Danielle Anderson (photo, left), a leading expert on bat-borne viruses, says the Wuhan lab is like other such facilities she’s worked in, with even better safety protocols.
She didn’t get sick, and said “no one she knew at the Wuhan institute was ill toward the end of 2019,” adding “there is a procedure for reporting symptoms that correspond with the pathogens handled in high-risk containment labs.”
“There was no chatter,” Anderson told Bloomberg News. “There was nothing … that would make you think something is going on here.” Moreover, she says, it’s extremely difficult to create a new virus in a lab. She thinks Covid-19 came from a natural source.
Read the story here.
That doesn’t stop people like Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) from flinging around claims that the pandemic originated in a lab, with no evidence to back it up. Who are you going to listen to, a scientist who was there, knows the material, and has no incentive to lie — or a career politician with no medical training who feeds on conspiracy theories?
For me, that’s a no-brainer.
At this time the theory that this originated in the lab is a viable hypothesis. [This comment has been edited.]
It’s an unlikely hypothesis, but one that’s been kept alive in large part by the Chinese government’s lack of transparency. However, it’s also illogical, and there’s a lack of evidence to support it, which keeps it in the realm of conspiracy theories. What Dr. Anderson says moves it closer to being a debunked conspiracy theory.