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Despite all that we don’t, and may never, know about the origins of Covid, a number of tantalising clues and hard-won intelligence point to at least one alarming conclusion. That’s that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was collaborating with both foreign and Chinese agencies on incredibly dangerous
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As we’ve seen in the earlier instalments of the latest investigations into the origins of Covid, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing all sorts of research on SARS-like coronaviruses between 2012 and 2019. It was helped along by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, which funnelled millions of
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The murky, patchwork trail of evidence of the origins of the Covid pandemic have so far exposed several certainties. The first is that it truly, as Donald Trump famously said, “came from China”. The wild viruses which became Covid in all its variants were retrieved from a remote mine in
As we’ve seen so far, the trail leading to the origins of the Covid pandemic winds back at least as far as 2002, and the SARS outbreak in China. That outbreak showed public health authorities that hitherto mild coronaviruses – mostly associated with the common cold – could and were mutating
As we’ve seen, the trail of the origin of the Covid pandemic – or as it should really be called, the Wuhan pandemic – has been traced, by bits and pieces of tantalising forensic work, to the Chinese city of Wuhan. More exactly, the arrows of the remaining evidence the Chinese
Slowly, but surely, investigators are worming into the cracks of the Great Firewall of China surrounding the origins of Covid. While Beijing has done its best to erase everything it can over the virus’ shadowy origins, whether a zoonosis that emerged in a “wet market” or an engineered virus that
