Scientists push back against criticism of WHO report on coronavirus origins
Bizarrely, the DG of the WHO is himself questioning the report and says the chance that it came from a lab needs to be thoroughly vetted
Minneapolis/Melbourne — Nearly three dozen scientists vetted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese government gathered in Wuhan, China, earlier this year to start the arduous task of finding the origins of Covid-19 and determining how it spread like wildfire around the world.
Six weeks after that trip, the working group delivered an analysis that laid out four possible scenarios and recommended next steps for digging deeper to find the pandemic’s genesis. The 123-page report, and a nearly 200-page supplement, was immediately engulfed by criticism, with a dozen nations including the US, the UK and Japan questioning its structure and insights...
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