{"id":37825,"date":"2021-10-09T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/09\/sharri-marksons-book-on-covids-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers"},"modified":"2021-10-09T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:00:13","slug":"sharri-marksons-book-on-covids-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37825","title":{"rendered":"Sharri Markson\u2019s book on Covid\u2019s Wuhan lab leak theory raises more questions than it answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details are deficient, scientific analysis contentious and expert voices missing in Markson\u2019s thesis about \u2018what really happened\u2019 in China, which establishes a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/p>\n<p> With 4.55 million deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic so far, the hunt for its origins has turned into something akin to an inquest on a mass scale. Are we dealing essentially with a terrible accident, negligence or even something more sinister?<\/p>\n<p>The Australian journalist Sharri Markson\u2019s conclusions fall somewhere close to the latter. She has established a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China, with the murder weapon a virus called Sars-CoV-2.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/09\/sharri-marksons-book-on-covids-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details are deficient, scientific analysis contentious and expert voices missing in Markson\u2019s thesis about \u2018what really happened\u2019 in China, which establishes a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology With 4.55 million deaths from the Covid-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"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":[43,645,50,1066,914,512,2170,299,554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-news-corporation","category-science","category-trump-administration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825","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\/1647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37826,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37825\/revisions\/37826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}