‘Overwhelming circumstantial evidence'
points to COVID-19 lab leak
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•Apr 4, 2021
The theory the virus came from a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was deemed to be unlikely by the report.
Mr Metzl told Sky News the WHO did not conduct this investigation, but it was a “joint study of an independent advisory committee” to the World Health Organisation and their “Chinese counterparts”.
He said the investigation was not “capable of examining all the hypotheses” and therefore it cannot be viewed as authoritative.
“The core point is that any examination of the origins of the pandemic needs to thoroughly examine all of the possible origin hypotheses,” Mr Metzl said.
“It cannot be credible to say we’re only going to look at zoonotic jump and cold chain, and we won’t even lift a finger to examine the lab leak hypothesis.
“This entire joint team study, in my view, is not credible or valid because they examined some hypotheses and not others, and then had the temerity to rank the likelihood of the different hypotheses”.
Mr Metzl said the circumstantial evidence to support the lab leak theory is “overwhelming” including how the horseshoe bat – which was identified as the genetic source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – lives in southern China.
“Wuhan is well beyond their range, Wuhan doesn’t have horseshoe bats,” he said.
“What Wuhan does have is China’s only level-four virology institute with the world’s largest collection of bat coronaviruses.
“I can’t say for sure that SARS-CoV-2 began with an accidental lab leak, but the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.
“On top of that from day one, China began a massive coverup that involved destroying samples, hiding data bases and other records, and imprisoning journalists.”