According to data released by Johns Hopkins University, every state in the United States reported more cases of COVID-19 in the past week than in the previous week
In the face of the epidemic data rebounding again, the United States has continued to hype the issue of "virus traceability", pressing the World Health Organization and dumping China
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Throughout the United States, the "laboratory leak theory" has never dominated the mainstream before May of this year
Of course, there are always some conservatives who make discordant arguments.
The senator from Arkansas has stated on many occasions that although he has no evidence that the virus originated in the laboratory, he must find relevant evidence.
In May of last year, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told National Geographic that all the evidence for gradual evolution strongly pointed to the fact that the new coronavirus was evolved in nature and then spread across species.
The little turmoil that followed the "Laboratory Leak" theory in the United States originated from a cover article published in New York Magazine by the novelist Nicholson Baker in January this year.
Nicholson Baker cited a lot of so-called "arguments".
Rightists However, many media reports show that the emergence of the new coronavirus in many places around the world is earlier than the known time:
March 2019: Wastewater sample from Barcelona
March 2019: Wastewater sample from Barcelona Reuters reported in June 2020 that a research team led by the University of Barcelona in Spain detected the new coronavirus in a Barcelona wastewater sample collected in March 2019
July 2019: Unexplained respiratory disease in Virginia, USA
July 2019: Unexplained respiratory disease in Virginia, USA ABC News in July 2019 showed that an unexplained fatal respiratory disease broke out in a retiree community in Virginia, USA, causing 54 people to be infected
September 2019: The new crown virus may have spread in Italy and other places
September 2019: The new crown virus may have spread in Italy and other places The Local of Italy, the British "Financial Times", the British "Daily Telegraph", France 24 TV, France Marseille News Network and other media reported that the results of the retesting of blood samples by two research institutions in Italy and the Netherlands showed that the new crown virus may It has spread in Italy as early as September 2019
December 2019: The new crown virus has spread in many places in the United States
December 2019: The new crown virus has spread in many places in the United States The National Institutes of Health (NIH) research results show that the new coronavirus has appeared in many places in the United States in December 2019
"Against the politicization of virus traceability"
"Against the politicization of virus traceability" Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University in the United States recently published an article in the media that the true purpose of tracing the source of the new crown virus should be to prevent a pandemic on the basis of international cooperation in the future, not to politicize this issue
Jeffrey Sachs commented on the article: “The origin of the new crown virus is not a problem of one government or another government, nor is it a geopolitical problem, nor is it a problem of dumping China and justifying the United States
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The United States has raised the issue of virus traceability again, which has aroused strong resentment from the international community
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The head of WHO's health emergency project, Michael Ryan, previously stated that the traceability of the new crown virus needs to be "depoliticized", and this still has a warning effect for the United States
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He said that he hopes that everyone can distinguish politics from science.
The entire process of virus traceability is poisoned by political factors.
If people expect scientists to cooperate to find answers to questions, they should avoid being surrounded by accusations.
And to avoid similar epidemics in the future, we need to provide a depoliticized environment.
Science and health are our goals, not political criticism
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Herman Laurel, a well-known political commentator in the Philippines, recently published an article entitled "Opening Fort Detrick to the Global New Coronavirus Traceability Investigation", calling on the World Health Organization to conduct a thorough investigation of the biological laboratory in Fort Detrick in the United States
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The article pointed out that the United States has repeatedly hyped up conspiracy theories against China, and is not transparent or censoring the possible "epidemic epicenter" in its own country, which is very suspicious in itself
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Laurel also stated in the article that China has made great contributions to the global fight against the epidemic
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While China is providing hundreds of millions of new crown vaccines to the world, the United States and its allies continue to politicize the epidemic and target China to avoid their own responsibilities
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The article wrote: "In order to maintain its dominant position, the United States has repeatedly played politics on major issues related to human well-being.
This behavior must stop
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