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The Covid pandemic probably occurred because a virus escaped from the laboratory in Wuhan, China: “If that were the case it would be the most expensive accident in the history of science.” This was stated by MIT and Harvard molecular biologist Alina Chan in an editorial in the New York Times, offering five explanations for her thesis.
The virus that caused the pandemic “emerged in Wuhan, the city where the most important laboratory in the world for Sars-type viruses is located”, explains Chan, according to whom “the year before the pandemic the Wuhan institute, working with American partners, he had proposed the creation of viruses with the distinctive characteristics of Sars-CoV-2.” The proposal “described a plan to create viruses surprisingly similar” to Covid, Chan adds, highlighting that the “American partners were probably aware of only a fraction of the research carried out in Wuhan. According to American intelligence sources, some of the institute’s research was classified or conducted with or for the Chinese military.”
«The Wuhan laboratory carried out its work in low biosafety conditions which could not have contained a virus present in the air as contagious as Sars-CoV-2», Chan further observes, noting how «the hypothesis that Covid-19 is from an animal from the Wuhan seafood market is not supported by strong evidence.” There is still a lack of “the clear evidence that would be expected – observes Chan – if the virus had emerged from the wild animal trade”.
