Morning Jolt: Let’s Focus on China’s Origin Story Again

On the menu today: a return to the topic of the Wuhan labs and the origin of the coronavirus, as China's top epidemiologist declares the Huanan Seafood Market was not the origin point of the coronavirus.

China Stops Blaming the Huanan Seafood Market for Launching the Pandemic

The fact that scientists backed by the Chinese government insist that SARS-CoV-2 didn't come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is not surprising. But the fact that an official Chinese source, on state-run television, is now changing the current official theory of the origin point of the virus is intriguing:

The director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, at the center of allegations around a potential laboratory accident, Wang Yanyi, over the weekend told China Central Television that the coronavirus was significantly different from any live pathogen that has been studied at the institute and that there therefore was no chance it could have leaked from there.

Note that there were ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 29 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 29 2020 Let's Focus on China's Origin Story Again On the menu today: a return to the topic of the Wuhan labs and the origin of the coronavirus, as China's top epidemiologist declares the Huanan Seafood Market was not the origin point of the coronavirus. China Stops Blaming the Huanan Seafood Market for Launching the Pandemic The fact that scientists backed by the Chinese government insist that SARS-CoV-2 didn't come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is not surprising. But the fact that an official Chinese source, on state-run television, is now changing the current official theory of the origin point of the virus is intriguing: The director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, at the center of allegations around a potential laboratory accident, Wang Yanyi, over the weekend told China Central Television that the coronavirus was significantly different from any live pathogen that has been studied at the institute and that there therefore was no chance it could have leaked from there. Note that there were ...   READ MORE

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