The World Health Organization released a report Tuesday detailing the findings of its review into the origins of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director general, agreed more research will be needed, though he struck a more diplomatic tone. The panel found it "possible" that the food chain was the source of the virus, probably through exposure to frozen wild animal meat imported from elsewhere in China."It's biologically plausible, but it's extraordinarily unlikely," he said. "That's not how epidemics arise."
"Although the team has concluded that a laboratory leak is the least likely hypothesis, this requires further investigation, potentially with additional missions involving specialist experts, which I am ready to deploy," Tedros said in his briefing to WHO member nations. "Let me say clearly that as far as WHO is concerned, all hypotheses remain on the table.
In addition to speaking with lab workers and examining lab data, the team reviewed blood samples that are routinely taken from staff members in labs that work with viruses – and found no evidence that they had been exposed early in the outbreak. Considering the lab leak as a possibility, Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview that the report should be a call to action to improve lab safety.at labs across the world. In the late 1970s, he said, the Soviet Union may have accidentally released a flu virus that spread globally. In the same era, a smallpox infection killed a lab worker in the U.K. The SARS virus escaped from a lab in 2004 and killed one person.
The team examined 80,000 samples from wildlife, livestock and poultry across China and 900 swabs from the seafood market where the first outbreak"What we do see are some clear links, some clear pathways this virus could have taken," said Peter Daszak, a team member, zoonosis expert and president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit group that supports global health and pandemic prevention.
Genetic data suggested the first cases could have come as early as September, though more likely between mid-November and early December.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
REALITY check the LAB didn't have gene splicing tech to combine BAT & PANGOLIN & the fact that PANGOLIN is in the Covid 19 DNA is telling. BAT BIT PANGOLIN, CHINESE MEDICINE gave PANGOLIN to pt rest history. That was proven long ago.
Obviously this was man-made and meant for use against other human beings, this is biological warfare.
Wow I find it amazing that the Wuhan Clinic was working on something exactly like it!!!!! What a coincidence!!! GTFO
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