After spending four weeks at the Wuhan Lab in China to gain insight on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a special World Health Organization team has concluded that it’s “extremely unlikely” the virus leaked from the lab.
In fact, the experts said the lab leak theory was “so improbable that that it will not be suggested as an avenue of future study,” The Associated Press reported. Rather, it’s more possible that the virus spread through frozen food products or directly from bats to humans, the team said.
One of the members of the team included zoologist Peter Daszak, who has a glaring conflict of interest in the investigation. Daszak is president of EcoHealth Alliance, which has worked closely with the Wuhan Lab on controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research. GOF involves manipulating pathogens, including coronaviruses, to make them more infectious or lethal.
Before the WHO team left for China, Daszak repeatedly dismissed the possibility that the pandemic was due to a lab leak, while numerous scientists criticized his appointment to the investigative team because he essentially was investigating his own work.
SOURCES:
AP News February 9, 2021
GM Watch September 23, 2020