Initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the notion of a lab leak as the origin the COVID-19 pandemic is now considered by some in the scientific community an avenue at least worth exploring.
Though it was initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the notion of a lab leak is now considered by some in the scientific community an avenue at least worth exploring.noting that the U.S. Department of Energy, which oversees a national network of labs, had concluded with "low confidence" that the pandemic began as a result of a lab leak.
"They haven't revealed any shred of scientific or other evidence that would support its theory," Gostin said. "So I don't know how anybody with that set of conclusions can come up with the idea that this validates in any way that theory." As for evidence of a natural spillover, researchers would have had to find evidence of the virus among the animal population in the Wuhan wildlife market, which Osterholm says hasn't been done.Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Feb. 23, 2017, in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.
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