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Why China and the WHO Will Never Find a Zoonotic Origin For the COVID-19 Pandemic Virus

February 16, 2021

by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD In China there is a popular joke about the southern city of Guangzhou (Canton). A visiting space alien, curious to learn about Chinese customs, tours its various …

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Engineered COVID-19-Infected Mouse Bites Researcher Amid ‘Explosion’ Of Risky Coronavirus Research

August 13, 2020
Ralph Baric UNC Gillings School of Public Health-web

by Jonathan Latham, PhD University researchers genetically engineer a human pandemic virus. They inject the new virus into a laboratory mouse. The infected mouse then bites a researcher…..It is a plot worthy of a Hollywood …

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A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 15, 2020
Masters Thesis: Case analysis of severe pneumonia caused by unknown virus

by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD In all the discussions of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, enormous scientific attention has been paid to the molecular character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including its …

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The Case Is Building That COVID-19 Had a Lab Origin

June 2, 2020
Shi Zheng-Li releases a bat

By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD If the public has learned a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic it is that science does not generate certainty. Do homemade face masks work? What is the …

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The Long History of Accidental Laboratory Releases of Potential Pandemic Pathogens Is Being Ignored In the COVID-19 Media Coverage

May 5, 2020
usamriid high containment lab

by Sam Husseini Many people are dismissing the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic might have come from a lab. It is possible that they are unaware of the frequency of biohazards escaping from laboratories. On Feb. …

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