The Wikipedia page for "COVID-19 misinformation" says the lab leak theory is based on “unfounded speculation and conspiracy theories”. Yet experts are now calling for a new investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
No sooner had the WHO yesterday published its report into the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Director General was making a statement distancing the organisation from what observers called a "whitewash".
A former director of the CDC has told CNN he believes SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This used to be dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory', but no longer. It's the subject of Matt Ridley's next book.
