There are many disagreements about where the COVID-19 virus, which has affected the whole world for the last two years, originated and how it spread all over the world. Although it is widely believed that the place where the virus originated is an animal market in Wuhan, China, allegations have previously been made that the source of the deadly virus was a laboratory affiliated with the Chinese government.
The results of two large studies on these claims were published on Saturday. According to the news of the New York Times, in the studies investigating the source of COVID-19, it was stated that the origin of the virus was very clearly an animal market in Wuhan.
“Extraordinarily clear that the pandemic has begun in the Huanan market”
from USA, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, Canada, Netherlands and Belgium “When you look at all the evidence together, it’s extraordinarily clear that the pandemic started in the Huanan market,” evolutionary biologist Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona, who is the co-author of two studies co-authored by the scientists, told the New York Times.
In a one-sentence summary of one of the studies, “The geographic clustering of the earliest known Covid-19 cases and the proximity of positive environmental samples to livestock dealers suggest that the Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan is the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.” In the summary of the other study, the scientists said, “Understanding the conditions that lead to pandemics is critical for their prevention.” recorded as.
It was claimed that the virus was produced in a laboratory affiliated with the Chinese government
With all this, the issue of whether China was at fault in the spread of the virus was discussed diplomatically, especially in the USA. it had become sensitive and became a policy issue. Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci has repeatedly argued over the issue with Republican senators, including Rand Paul of Kentucky, a proponent of the laboratory origin theory.
Accordingly, in July 2021, Paul questioned Fauci about the “gain-of-function” research on viruses in the Chinese laboratory and whether US funding for such research contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic; Fauci, on the other hand, accused Paul of “not knowing what he was saying”.
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