Review: Multi-Country Experts Rebut "The Origin theory of the New Coronavirus Laboratory"

, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The
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, director of the Center for Health and Safety at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, told the media recently: "My judgment remains that the new coronavirus conforms to its natural origin.
An international team reported in the British journal Nature Microbiology that the new coronavirus may have been differentiated from its most closely related bat virus 40 to 70 years ago, meaning that the virus spectrum that produces the new coronavirus may have been spreading in bats for decades. The researchers believe that the new coronavirus has been differentiated for a long time, indicating the possibility of an unseated and potentially contagious bat virus line. At the same time, the existing diversity and dynamic process of virus recombination in the bat virus linee prove that it is difficult to identify viruses that are likely to cause major human outbreaks in advance.
, a virologist at the Scripps Institute in the United States and others who have published papers on the origin of the new coronavirus in nature medicine, say that comparative analysis of genomic data can infer the origin of the new coronavirus. "Our analysis clearly shows that the new coronavirus is not a laboratory-built virus, nor is it a deliberately manipulated virus."
Bedford, an expert in computational biology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States, also expressed his views in the media. He believes that he has never seen genetic material embedded or missing in some way. These subtle mutations are the process of natural evolution.
Lipkin, director of the Center for Infections and Immunization at Columbia University, also said recently that there was no evidence to support the claim that the new coronavirus was intentionally or unintentionally "leaked" from the lab. "You can't just say verbally who's guilty of accidentally leaking the virus, there has to be evidence."
, an expert at the Swiss Institute of Virology and Immunology, also said in an interview with Euronews, based in Lyon, France, that "there is no conclusive evidence that the new coronavirus was produced in the laboratory".
, professor of medical microbiology at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the University of London, said in May that "human history is a history of pandemics, and in fact we are experiencing the spread of viruses and bacteria every year". "The pandemic happened naturally, and there's no need to make up conspiracy theories about it, " he said.
In response to conspiracy theories about the origins of the new coronavirus, Peter Dassack, chairman of the Eco-Health Alliance, a New York-based non-profit research organization and an expert on disease ecology in the UK, warned in a June article in the Guardian: "Conspiracy theories can make people lose their logical and rational judgment.
He stressed that "analysing the origins of the new coronavirus remains critical to us" because "such a global pandemic would not be a tragedy that occurs only once, and we will pay a higher price for ignoring the global scientific community's judgment on how and why the virus originated". (Reporter: Luo Guofang; Participating journalists: Tan Jingjing, Yu Jiaxin, Zhang Jiawei, Chen Chen)