{"id":40250,"date":"2022-01-01T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/31\/why-hunt-for-covid-origins-still-wrapped-in-politics-impasse-china-west"},"modified":"2022-01-01T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:12:14","slug":"tit-for-tat-why-hunt-for-covids-origins-still-mired-in-politics-and-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40250","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tit for tat\u2019: why hunt for Covid\u2019s origins still mired in politics and controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific consensus absent as impasse between China and west continues to hamper tracing effort<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robert Garry, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane medical school in Louisiana, got a call from his university management telling him that agents from the FBI and CIA had requested a chat about his research into the origins of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Garry agreed and on 30 July three agents flew down to Louisiana to talk to him in person.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/31\/why-hunt-for-covid-origins-still-wrapped-in-politics-impasse-china-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific consensus absent as impasse between China and west continues to hamper tracing effortCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRobert Garry, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane medical school in Louisiana, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[50,1066,914,299,45,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-health-organization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40250","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40251,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40250\/revisions\/40251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}