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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID.

The Conversation

China is constructing a new hero cult – here’s why that matters

A tour guide competition was held in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late May. This was not some fun contest. According to Chinese state media, it was a carefully conceived effort to “attract and cultivate a group of politically firm and professionally skilled storytellers of heroes and martyrs…

The Conversation

One dead in apparent shooting in rare case of gun violence in China

One person has died in an apparent shooting at an outdoor restaurant in the city of Wuhan in what would be a rare case of gun violence in China

The Independent UK

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Trump's Budget Calls for $17 Billion Cut to NIH, Citing Lax Oversight of Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."

Reason

China suggests Covid-19 originated in US in response to Trump allegation

China said the Wuhan lab leak virus theory was ‘extremely unlikely’

The Independent UK

White House doubles down on its lab leak theory, annihilating the original COVID-19 information website and replacing it with its own claims

Trump believes the COVID-19 pandemic started from a research lab in Wuhan, China.

Fortune

5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The novel coronavirus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, began as a “cluster of severe pneumonia cases of unknown cause” reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It had spread to 118,000 cases reported in…

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The ‘lab-leak origin’ of Covid-19. Fact or fiction?

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on a potential Wuhan lab leak was a top priority. The following day, The New York Times reported that the agency had shifted from an undecided stance to favoring a…

The Conversation

New bat strain of coronavirus discovered by researchers in Wuhan

The potential for human infection has yet to be explored

Evening Standard

USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency

There remains many open questions about whether the agency's funding played a role in the creation of COVID-19 in a Wuhan laboratory.

Reason

CIA Now Believes COVID-19 Originated in a Lab, But Has 'Low Confidence' in Theory

The CIA now considers a lab leak the most likely origin of COVID-19 but holds "low confidence" in the theory.

Latin Times

CIA Asserts Covid-19 Likely Originated From Lab Leak In China

CIA investigates Covid-19 lab leak theory in China. Assessment points to Wuhan lab incident as likely cause. Significant shift in CIA's position.

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Wuhan Keen To Shake Off Pandemic Label Five Years On

Built in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a symbol of the Chinese city's fight against the virus that first emerged there.

International Business Times

Covid's Origins Reviewed: Lab Leak Or Natural Spillover?

Whether Covid-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested mystery.

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Radio France Internationale

Five years on, WHO repeats call for China to share Covid data

Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations’ health organisation has called on China to share data to understand how it began.

Al Jazeera

COVID-19 likely came from a lab, US committee finds

Republican-controlled committee says coronavirus likely emerged from a ‘laboratory or research-related accident’.

Reason

Dr. Jay in the House

Plus: the search for COVID's origins, a Middle East ceasefire, and yet another cute, offensive turkey pardon.

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Nobody Stops Batman Riding a Motorcycle on Halloween, Unless He’s in China

Imagine this: it's Halloween, and you're on your merry way to a party when—backed by the soundtrack of a motorcycle—you see the most realistic-looking Batman you've ever seen. Well, if you were in Wuhan, Hubei, China this past spooky season you wouldn't have to imagine anything because it'd be right in…

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Tomljanovic falls at first hurdle in Wuhan Open

Ajla Tomljanovic has suffered a comedown from her success in the Hong Kong Open with a first round defeat in Wuhan.

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Shanghai Masters: Fritz And Dimitrov Advance To Third Round

Exciting matches and standout performances at Shanghai Masters and Wuhan Open showcase player talent and determination in thrilling tennis action.

The Independent UK

Azealia Banks claims Birmingham fish stall made her ill: ‘It’s giving Wuhan wet market’

‘Just spent the last two days bathing, massaging, drinking tea sweating that out,’ rapper tweeted

The Guardian - UK

Azealia Banks likens Bull Ring fish stalls in Birmingham to ‘Wuhan wet market’

US rapper says her visit to indoor market led to her spending two days ‘sweating out’ an illness

The Conversation

Did COVID come from an animal market? Here’s what the new evidence really tells us

The argument about the origins of COVID has always been heated, and nowadays it feels more like a brawl than a scientific debate.

Radio France Internationale

New evidence reinforces theory Covid emerged at Chinese market

A French researcher has uncovered new evidence backing the theory that humans initially contracted the Covid-19 virus from animals at a market in China in late 2019 .

The Independent UK

‘Beyond reasonable doubt’ Covid pandemic originated at Wuhan market stall

US and French researchers traced coronavirus to one stall in Wuhan, China after analysing genetic samples

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