WHO team scientist says COVID-19 likely originated from bats in China

[Hamartia Antidote]

WHO team scientist says COVID-19 likely originated from bats in China

A scientist on the World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 says the virus started in China and “most likely” came from bats.

nypost.com

A scientist on the World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 says the virus started in China and “most likely” came from bats.

Professor Dominic Dwyer — an Australian microbiologist on the 14-member team who visited Wuhan last month — said he came to the conclusion despite the WHO’s official findings remaining inconclusive, according to Australia’s Nine News.

“I think it started in China,” Dwyer told the outlet in an interview Wednesday. “I think the evidence for it starting elsewhere in the world is actually very limited. There is some evidence but it’s not really very good.”

The team of virologists, epidemiologists, veterinarians and food safety specialists spent two weeks in January visiting sites linked to the initial outbreak in China — including the Huanan Seafood Market, where the first cases of the virus were reported.

Dwyer, an infectious diseases expert for NSW Health, said COVID-19 likely originated from bats and had been spreading in the country before it accelerated in December 2019.

People wearing face masks buy vegetables at a wet market in Wuhan, China on February 8, 2021.REUTERS/Aly Song “I think the explosion in the market in Wuhan was really an amplifying event. The virus had probably been circulating [in the community] for some good few weeks beforehand,” he said.

“The results aren’t definitive like people would expect, but that was never going to happen.”

Dwyer also admitted that while working with Chinese nationals during the investigation, his team endured some “heated” moments.

Medical workers move the body of a COVID-19 victim at a hospital in Wuhan on February 16, 2020 at the start of the pandemic.EPA “There were some clear differences of opinion and there were some quite firm and heated exchanges over things but, in general, everyone was trying to do the right thing and certainly WHO got more data than they’ve ever had before, and that’s some real progress,” the microbiologist said.

“The Chinese were very hospitable hosts.”

However, the politicized nature of the investigation surprised him.

“It’s one thing discussing the science — all of us are used to doing that. It’s another talking around the politics around this and [to] see responses change around the politics,” he said.

Ultimately, the findings didn’t change the WHO’s general understanding of the virus, said Dwyer, who is currently quarantined in a Sydney hotel after flying back from China.

“Did we change the picture dramatically compared to what we had before? I don’t think so,” he said. “Did we improve our understanding and add details? Absolutely.”

 

[vi-va]

Completely bull$hit, fabricated fake news.

 

[charene514]

Sounds very very true to me !

 

[Beast]

LOL.. Nypost? I can bet, they twist and slander those original sentence by WHO.

 

[qwerrty]

WHO didn't say that

just like this one

 

[Mirzali Khan]

I think it came from a lab

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

That is how Westerners twisted facts maybe to hide their own guilt.

WHO investigators are now looking forward to go to visit the other countries including Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory in Maryland, USA

They did said this but why is it not reported as widely as fabricated lies?



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

 

[Splurgenxs]

If not intentional then China needs to entrench it self and start looking inward for its trade markets , the tides will pass in a few year.

 

[Nan Yang]

WHO team scientist says COVID-19 likely originated from bats in China

A scientist on the World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 says the virus started in China and “most likely” came from bats.

nypost.com

A scientist on the World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 says the virus started in China and “most likely” came from bats.

Professor Dominic Dwyer — an Australian microbiologist on the 14-member team who visited Wuhan last month — said he came to the conclusion despite the WHO’s official findings remaining inconclusive, according to Australia’s Nine News.

“I think it started in China,” Dwyer told the outlet in an interview Wednesday. “I think the evidence for it starting elsewhere in the world is actually very limited. There is some evidence but it’s not really very good.”

The team of virologists, epidemiologists, veterinarians and food safety specialists spent two weeks in January visiting sites linked to the initial outbreak in China — including the Huanan Seafood Market, where the first cases of the virus were reported.

Dwyer, an infectious diseases expert for NSW Health, said COVID-19 likely originated from bats and had been spreading in the country before it accelerated in December 2019.

People wearing face masks buy vegetables at a wet market in Wuhan, China on February 8, 2021.REUTERS/Aly Song “I think the explosion in the market in Wuhan was really an amplifying event. The virus had probably been circulating [in the community] for some good few weeks beforehand,” he said.

“The results aren’t definitive like people would expect, but that was never going to happen.”

Dwyer also admitted that while working with Chinese nationals during the investigation, his team endured some “heated” moments.

Medical workers move the body of a COVID-19 victim at a hospital in Wuhan on February 16, 2020 at the start of the pandemic.EPA “There were some clear differences of opinion and there were some quite firm and heated exchanges over things but, in general, everyone was trying to do the right thing and certainly WHO got more data than they’ve ever had before, and that’s some real progress,” the microbiologist said.

“The Chinese were very hospitable hosts.”

However, the politicized nature of the investigation surprised him.

“It’s one thing discussing the science — all of us are used to doing that. It’s another talking around the politics around this and [to] see responses change around the politics,” he said.

Ultimately, the findings didn’t change the WHO’s general understanding of the virus, said Dwyer, who is currently quarantined in a Sydney hotel after flying back from China.

“Did we change the picture dramatically compared to what we had before? I don’t think so,” he said. “Did we improve our understanding and add details? Absolutely.”

LOL arguing from the fringes and ignoring the big two elephant in the room.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Completely bull$hit, fabricated fake news.

Dominic Dwyer

Can you actually try listening to the WHO panel people instead of hitting your default "fake news" script reply.

It seems if anybody in the WHO investigation panel deviates from the CCP narrative the response expected is to drown them out with a barrage of lame

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so nobody can hear what they have to say.