Scientists who declined COVID-19 leak theory linked to Wuhan lab, Chinese researchers: Report


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Scientists who declined the theory that COVID-19 leaked from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had connections to the infamous lab, according to media reports. Scientists who signed a letter published in The Lancet on March 7 last year rejecting the lab-leak theory had links to Chinese researchers, their colleagues, or funders, The Telegraph reported. The Lancet letter, signed by 27 scientists and initiated by British zoologist Peter Daszak, effectively shut down the scientific debate into whether coronavirus was manipulated or leaked from the Chinese lab. Daszak is the president of the US-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance that has a direct...