Corruption Found in COVID Origins Investigation

In February 2020, 27 scientists published a statement in The Lancet stating SARS-CoV-2 originated in wildlife and claims that it had a laboratory origin were conspiracy theories.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In February 2020, a group of virologists published a letter in The Lancet, stating they “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,” and calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy

• Twenty-six of them had ties to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is at the heart of the controversy over its gain-of-fu…