A group of the world’s leading scientists have written an open letter urging more investigation into the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic was caused by a leak from Wuhan’s Institute of Virology, saying that the World Health Organisation has dismissed the notion without proper consideration.
The scientists, who all work for the globe’s leading universities and health organisations, urged that the origins of the pandemic must be further investigated and that the lab leak theory remains “viable” despite the WHO’s statements to the contrary.
The group includes David Relman, professor of microbiology at Stanford, Ravindra Gupta, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, and Jesse Bloom, a virus expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. (...)