{"id":35677,"date":"2021-08-22T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-is-more-about-politics-than-science"},"modified":"2021-08-22T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T08:30:30","slug":"the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-is-more-about-politics-than-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35677","title":{"rendered":"The Wuhan lab leak theory is more about politics than science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever this week\u2019s Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Joe Biden\u2019s security staff are up to the mark, a new report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will be placed on the president\u2019s desk this week. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/26\/joe-biden-us-intelligence-community-covid-19-origins-china\" title=\"\">team was given 90 days in May <\/a>to review the virus\u2019s origins after several US scientists indicated they were no longer certain about the source of Sars-CoV-2.<\/p>\n<p>It will be intriguing to learn how Biden\u2019s team answers the critically important questions that still surround the origins of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Did it emerge because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/28\/how-did-the-coronavirus-start-where-did-it-come-from-how-did-it-spread-humans-was-it-really-bats-pangolins-wuhan-animal-market\" title=\"\">natural viral spillovers<\/a> from bats to another animal and then into humans? Or did it leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology? And, if so, had it been enhanced to make it especially virulent?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-is-more-about-politics-than-science\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever this week\u2019s Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitatsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIf Joe Biden\u2019s security staff are up to the mark, a new report on the origins of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,918,50,1066,346,914,512,916,299,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-society","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35678,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35677\/revisions\/35678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}