Feb. 19, 2020 was the day science died. At the start of a global pandemic that would kill millions, in the world’s most prestigious medical journal, 27 eminent public health scientists signed a letter labeling as “conspiracy theories” any suggestion that the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic might have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” the experts, from nine countries wrote.
Scientists who have studied the new virus “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,” they said.
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