WHO backtracks, says COVID-19 lab leak possibility not ‘discarded’

[Hamartia Antidote]

WHO backtracks, says COVID-19 lab leak possibility not ‘discarded’

The head of the World Health Organization insisted Friday that scientists haven’t ruled out the possibility that COVID-19 was leaked from a lab in China — despite previous declarations from a WHO-l…

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The head of the World Health Organization insisted Friday that scientists haven’t ruled out the possibility that COVID-19 was leaked from a lab in China — despite previous declarations from a WHO-led team saying it was “extremely unlikely.”

In a swift about-face, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the theory that the virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has not been dismissed, and that the organization is still investigating.

“Some questions have been raised as to whether some hypotheses have been discarded,” Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

“Having spoken with some members of the team, I wish to confirm that all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and studies.”

His comments come after Peter Ben Embarek — an animal diseases expert on the WHO-led team that investigated the origins of the pandemic in the Chinese city — insisted earlier this week that the theory was far-fetched.

“The findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus to the human population,” Embarek said.

However, some potential findings may lie outside the “scope” of the WHO-led team’s investigation, Ghebreyesus explained Friday.

“Some of that work may lie outside the remit and scope of this mission. We have always said that this mission would not find all the answers, but it has added important information that takes us closer to understanding the origins of the virus,” he said.

“We will continue working to get the information we need to answer the questions that still need to be answered.”

The Trump administration previously pointed fingers at the Wuhan lab, saying the virus may have escaped while it was being studied there.

China, meanwhile, has remained defiant that COVID-19 was never present at the lab.

More than 108 million confirmed cases have now been reported globally since the virus emerged and more than 2.3 million people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

 

[atan651]

yes, go investigate Fort Detrick, that's where the virus initially escaped.

 

[Menthol]

yes, go investigate Fort Detrick, that's where the virus initially escaped.

I agree 100% on this.

Since the first beginning, everyone was already suspecting it.

All the evidence and stories lead to it.


It's funny that we can easily found the animal source from other new diseases, even in a backwater third-world country.

But not for as widespread and big as COVID-19.

What we can found is only the closest, but not the exact source of the animal.


If Covid-19 from the animal in China, it will widespread in China hugely, as you can control the human, but not the animal,

How hard China government contains the virus on the human population and successful, a new case will keep appearing, following the animal movement.


A country with the biggest and widest pandemic is the source of the virus.

And the second biggest is the closest and frequent interaction with the source country.

East Asia and South East Asia have much lower infected persons by total number and capita compare with other continents, which I can assume it's not from East and SE Asia, despite the closest virus was found in the animal in East and SE Asia.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

WHO expert: Virus research in Wuhan 'successful in many ways'
Updated 2021.02.13 13:40 GMT+8

A World Health Organization's (WHO) expert team said on Friday that they learned a lot about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, during a recent mission to China.

The remarks were made at the WHO's daily press conference in Geneva.

The team started a visit to the central Chinese city of Wuhan on January 14 for a joint study on the coronavirus's origins. The experts have now concluded their research with Chinese medical professionals in the city.

Peter Ben Embarek, head of the WHO mission, said the international team's visit to China has been "successful in many ways," with a lot of new knowledge made about the start of the event and understandings deepened in the fields including the spread of the virus, virus genome sequencing and wildlife tracing.

He reiterated that none of the labs in Wuhan had the virus, and no one had seen the virus before the outbreak.

Ben Embarek said the WHO experts visited and discussed with different laboratories in Wuhan, and learned that none of the labs was working or had the SARS-CoV-2 in their collections, which is in line with what other laboratories around the world have said – that "this virus had not been worked with knowingly in any of labs around the world working with coronaviruses."

"It's of course always possible that the virus is and was present in samples that have not yet been processed, or among viruses that have not yet been characterized," the expert said. "But knowingly, apparently from all the labs we've talked with, nobody has seen this virus before."

Ben Embarek at the press conference in Wuhan last week ruled out the possibility that the novel coronavirus was made from laboratories, saying it is extremely unlikely and they will not work on this hypothesis regarding the virus tracing in the future.

Marion Koopmans, who's also in the international panel to China, added that more than 30,000 animals of different species and from different locations have been tested and screened, and no potential reservoir has been found among them with all results negative.

"There was not a clear candidate for intermediate host yet," said Koopmans, but the traceback process "does provide some leads for the next steps in the studies."

Two reports to be released

A summary report of the mission's findings could emerge as early as next week, followed by a final report "in the coming weeks," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

"We look forward to receiving both reports, which will be released publicly," said Tedros.

The WHO chief pointed out again that this mission would not find all the answers, but it has provided important information that "takes people closer to understanding the origins of the virus."

"The mission has achieved a better understanding of the early days of the pandemic, and identified areas for further analysis and research," he added

 

[Feng Leng]

“Having spoken with some members of the team, I wish to confirm that all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and studies.”

WHO obtained evidence that it came from Fort Detrick.

 

[Feng Leng]

Yes, just like tiannenmin was a lie. what is your monthly pay for trolling for PLA?
You guys really need to get a life instead of selling bull kak for the communist party. It is funny, given the censorship, you are on this forum promoting this fake counter narrative just like the KGB did for HIV back in the 80s.

It's very simple then. Just let WHO investigate Fort Detrick if there is nothing to hide.

 

[gangsta_rap]

Yes, just like tiannenmin was a lie. what is your monthly pay for trolling for PLA?
You guys really need to get a life instead of selling bull kak for the communist party. It is funny, given the censorship, you are on this forum promoting this fake counter narrative just like the KGB did for HIV back in the 80s.

SIX MILLION MORE!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

WHO obtained evidence that it came from Fort Detrick.

LOL! Nationalists on WeChat groups don't count as evidence.

 

[powastick]

They didn't backtrack, sensationalist article. They already said "unlikely" in the first place.

 

[Beast]

Yes, just like tiannenmin was a lie. what is your monthly pay for trolling for PLA?
You guys really need to get a life instead of selling bull kak for the communist party. It is funny, given the censorship, you are on this forum promoting this fake counter narrative just like the KGB did for HIV back in the 80s.

@waz @AgNoStiC MuSliM @WebMaster

I dont know why this forumer still exist in this forum with many times with name calling and typical no meaning post calling other as pay troll. Its not the first time and I have not seen him once banned.

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[danger007]

Lol chinese members on mission... western media - lol fake news... Uk media- fake news, Australian media- fake news... global times controlled and edited by ccp - real

 

[Beast]

Lol chinese members on mission... western media - lol fake news... Uk media- fake news, Australian media- fake news... global times controlled and edited by ccp - real

Western credibility is on the downhill and India is going down too.

More like you cant accept western media is full of falsehood and use their media more for political gain than real news.

 

[denel]

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ja man, these are paid bots for the commies designed to throw so much fake news; you will forget reality.
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[Nan Yang]

ja man, these are paid bots for the commies designed to throw so much fake news; you will forget reality.
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Noone died at TAM square. No leader of China would dare allow blood to be spill at the Gate of Heaven, Tian An Men.

Here are a few more examples of what western journalists once said about what happened in Tiananmen Square in June 1989:

CBS NEWS: “We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]” — thus wrote CBS News reporter Richard Roth.

BBC NEWS: “I was one of the foreign journalists who witnessed the events that night. There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square” — BBC reporter, James Miles, wrote in 2009.

NY TIMES: In June 13, 1989, NY Times reporter Nicholas Kristof – who was in Beijing at that time – wrote, “State television has even shown film of students marching peacefully away from the [Tiananmen] square shortly after dawn as proof that they [protesters] were not slaughtered.” In that article, he also debunked an unidentified student protester who had claimed in a sensational article that Chinese soldiers with machine guns simply mowed down peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square.

REUTERS: Graham Earnshaw was in the Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3. He didn’t leave the square until the morning of June 4th. He wrote in his memoir that the military came, negotiated with the students and made everyone (including himself) leave peacefully; and that nobody died in the square.

But did people die in China? Yes, about 200-300 people died in clashes in various parts of Beijing, around June 4 — and about half of those who died were soldiers and cops.

WIKILEAKS: A Wikileaks cable from the US Embassy in Beijing (sent in July 1989) also reveals the eyewitness accounts of a Latin American diplomat and his wife: “They were able to enter and leave the [Tiananmen] square several times and were not harassed by troops. Remaining with students … until the final withdrawal, the diplomat said there were no mass shootings in the square or the monument.”

 

[lightoftruth]

Time to ask for damages from China.