We have reached a crucial point in the study of Covid origins, with “the window of opportunity” for proper investigation closing, scientists have warned. Despite this, research efforts appear to have stalled. BBC News has the story.
Researchers asked by the World Health Organisation to find the cause of the initial outbreak say the process has stalled, in scientific journal Nature.
And further delay could make crucial studies “biologically impossible”.
They are calling on political and scientific leaders to expedite those studies “while there is still time”.
Dutch Virologist Professor Marion Koopmans, a member of the WHO team, told BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science programme the risk of pandemics was increasing.
“Because of the way the world is changing – population increase, crowding and more interaction between humans and animals, we need to learn where things go wrong and how we can avoid that in the future,” she said.
The WHO team visited Wuhan in January and published a report in March recommending:
~ searching blood banks in China and other countries for antibodies to the virus in blood donated in the months preceding the December 2019 outbreak
~ taking samples from farmed wild animals such as mink and racoon dog that might be the “intermediate host” that allowed the virus to jump species
But since farmed animals have a limited lifespan and blood banks store donations for a fixed period, the researchers are worried that valuable biological information may already have been lost.
The politically contentious issue of whether the virus might have escaped from a laboratory in China had also made some of the work more difficult, Professor Koopmans said.
All the lines of inquiry were relevant, she said, “but when accusations get mixed with the scientific questions, things become quite difficult”.
In their report, however, the team concluded while it was impossible to determine how the virus had infected the first humans, “all available evidence” suggested it had a natural animal origin and was “not a manipulated or constructed virus”.
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People keep saying there’s going to be “…more interaction between humans and animals…”. I don’t understand. How can there be more interaction between humans and animals when people spend less time in nature, eat fewer animal products proportionately, and utilise and work with fewer animal products than ever before in history?
It is clearly nonesense – there is far less interaction with animals now than in any other time in our history. Also, the fact that people are more geographically mobile mititages against future pandemics, not increases the risk. It is all part of the plan to scare everyone about future pandemics.
Obviously rubbish. But is it perhaps to scare people into not keeping pets?
Having pets doesn’t fit with the vision of living in a rented space in a smart city, owning nothing and being happy.
I think the default would be it came out of the lab unless there was overwhelming evidence against it
unanswered questions are
1 – is it pure animal origin?
2 – any gain of function research? who funded?
3 – accidental or purposeful release?
4 – part of a bioweapons program?
5 – seems to affect ethnic europeans most – coincidence or feature?
If it came out of a lab it has to be one of the biggest crimes of all time, regardless of whether it was intentional or accidental.
That the matter isn’t investigated vigorously and to a final conclusion is an absolute outrage. It will be one of those key things, like the unpunished invasion of Iraq, that will badly damage people’s belief in law, order and justice.
Research has stalled or been stalled? It seems more like research for an excuse rather than seeking the true cause. Given that they claim the problem is with degradation of samples, then the first year of denials would have been crucial and the deliberate stalling before the start of the investigations will have ensured the any trail is obscured.
They should also try looking at a deliberate US bioweapons attack on China and Iran.
There is strong circumstantial evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was manipulated by “gain of function” research and released into China and Iran by rogue elements within the US Deep State to destabilize their economies. It is possible that the rogue elements within the US Deep State thought that the pathogen would be like SARS and mainly remain where released and NOT travel around the world.
Gene sequencing of the original virus shows it probably originated in a bat cave in China.
Samples were taken for research at the Wuhan lab.
Some of the research at the Wuhan lab was funded by the US.
It is possible samples were sent to the US bio-weapons lab at Fort Detrick in the US.
It is possible SARS-CoV-2 was naturally created in this lab before it shut down for “security” reasons.
The US sent 300 military personnel to Wuhan for the World Military Games.
It is possible US spooks were sent to Wuhan for these games where they released the pathogen to destabilize the Chinese economy.
The Chinese government accused the US of being behind the outbreak.
The US murdered the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on 3rd January 2020.
Soon after this Iranian leaders started to die of Covid in the Iranian city of Qom where many of their leaders reside. By March 2021, the virus had infected at least 27 senior officials with 16 dying.
Iran has one of the lowest Chinese populations in the world and any infection would normally be centred in the capital city of Tehran.
The Iranian government accused the US of being behind the outbreak.
And the footage of people keeling over in the street and dying in China? How does that fit your theory?
Crisis actors.
It fits my theory very well as it was an attack on China by the US with a bioweapon virus.
Yes it was and also, right in the middle of the Trade War Trump had started with China and was losing horribly.
You have hit the nail on the head Glass half full. Exactly as u state it. That’s why they have no mind to research it. The actions China took are commensurate with a biolofinal weapon – isolation etc nother one for a routine respiratory virus which the are used to in any event.
‘The US murdered the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on 3rd January 2020’
The US justifiably executed the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on 3rd January 2020. There, corrected it for you.
For those of you who still don’t know who Dr. Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance is, what his connection to Dr. Frautzi is and for that matter the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is…. Watch and learn.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/did-covid-leak-from-a-lab-in-china
Who in God’s name does highly-questionable gain-of-function CRISPR experiments on deadly viruses at just level BSL2?
Oh that’s right… the Bat Woman did… Shi Zhengli
From watching the progamme, it looks like there’s been a carefully-crafted cover up since Day 1. Given that, you have to wonder what else those involved have got up to, both during the ‘pandemic’ and in the years/decades before.
Far more on this and the main players involved on Dr Sam Bailey’s YouTube and odysee channels, and in the book she’s co-authored for the 3rd Edition, Virus Mania. Fauci & Co feature heavily.
Note also that good old Bill has been ‘funding’ both The Telegraph and Grauniad’s ‘health’ sections for a good few years to (IMHO) ‘get the message out’ on vaccines, etc, etc.
I just have visions of Dr Evil from Austin Powers laughing uncontrollably…
… “while it was impossible to determine how the virus had infected the first humans,”all available evidence” suggested that it had a natural animal origin and was “not a manufactured or constructed virus”.
Good grief, it’s worse than a Fifties Latin American B rate Sci-Fi movie !! Awfully insulting subterfuge, out and out gaslighting.
And if you’ve been lucky enough (or not) to be at school or college, most of this week (certainly in the Frozen North) with a muzzle on all day, and happen to be a wee bit Oxygen deprived, you might just about believe this bollocks.
Oh well. That’s the inconvenient truth dead and buried then! Move on. Nothing to see here.
The continuing “uncertainty” gives strong credence to the theory that it was created during gain of function research. If this is true, the US and/or China have to be the ones responsible. And there is absolutely no way that either country’s government is going to let any investigation come to the conclusion that it was manufacturered.
And they both have WHO in their pay.
This is simply distraction and piffle… while they go after the kids: Please support: COVID19 Assembly take legal action against MHRA to halt child vaccinations – https://www.LCAHub.org/
Of course its stalled. The ‘leak theory’ is simply a distraction. They’ve been playing around with this virus and ‘vaccine’ patents since 2002. There’s nothing novel…!
The origin doesn’t matter. It’s certain it was man-made gain of function and it’s a global plan.