Origins of COVID-19: An Examination of Available Evidence

[johng]

Full senate hearing available here.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/origins-of-covid-19-an-examination-of-available-evidence/

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Virologists and epidemiologists back natural origin for COVID-19, survey suggests

6 Feb 2024

 

No scientific dispute has ever been resolved by an opinion poll, and plenty of famous researchers have been on the wrong side of scientific history. But a group of risk experts has found a new angle on one of the most hotly contested science issues of our time—where the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic came from—by conducting what it calls the first systematic survey of scientific opinion on the matter.

 

The report, posted online on Friday, suggests virologists and other scientists with relevant expertise favor the view that the pandemic began when a natural virus jumped from an animal to a human, not because of an accident in a research lab studying or manipulating coronaviruses. The survey, like every other morsel of information around the pandemic’s origin, triggered a fierce debate on social media, where the report was both praised as “an important global survey” and panned as a “fake study.”

 

https://www.science.org/content/article/virologists-and-epidemiologists-back-natural-origin-covid-19-survey-suggests

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

April 23, 2024

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"At the heart of the question is whether the virus jumped from an animal or came from a laboratory accident. A U.S. intelligence analysis says there is insufficient evidence to prove either theory."

 

https://apnews.com/article/china-covid-virus-origins-pandemic-lab-leak-bed5ab50dca8e318ab00f60b5911da0c

 

 

US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins rejects some points raised by lab leak theory proponents

June 24, 2023

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But Friday’s report said the intelligence community has not gone further. Four agencies still believe the virus was transferred from animals to humans, and two agencies — the Energy Department and the FBI — believe the virus leaked from a lab. The CIA and another agency have not made an assessment.

 

https://apnews.com/article/covid19-united-states-intelligence-china-23dcbde0be5638556739b564ece97027

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"Scientists who specialize in tracing outbreaks have published analyses of early cases and viral genomes that they say point to the pandemic’s starting at an illegal wild-animal market in Wuhan. The presence of the coronavirus in samples from the market containing genetic material linked to raccoon dogs, they have said, is consistent with that scenario."

 

New York Times

May1, 2024

 

https://archive.ph/Ho5gO#selection-7195.0-7199.51

 

[Robert Paulson]

It seems a number of these senators seem to believe the virus was created in a lab. I wonder what ever could have given them that crazy idea.

 

Edited Tuesday at 08:44 AM by stats
unsourced claims removed

[johng]

4 minutes ago, Robert Paulson said:

seems a number of these senators seem to believe the virus was created in a lab.

Not only the senators

FBI , Department of energy...with "whistleblowers" from CIA chiming in too.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

re the U.S. government's assessment, as noted above:

 

"A U.S. intelligence analysis says there is insufficient evidence to prove either theory."

 

https://apnews.com/article/china-covid-virus-origins-pandemic-lab-leak-bed5ab50dca8e318ab00f60b5911da0c

 

"Four agencies still believe the virus was transferred from animals to humans, and two agencies — the Energy Department and the FBI — believe the virus leaked from a lab. The CIA and another agency have not made an assessment.

 

https://apnews.com/article/covid19-united-states-intelligence-china-23dcbde0be5638556739b564ece97027

 

Regarding some of the mentioned politicians here, some of them believe all kinds of things, variously as yet unproven or disproven... But that doesn't stop them from continuing to spout their spiel.