The controversy over “Proximal Origin” represents years of unanswered questions about how the Covid lab leak hypothesis was cast as a conspiracy theory.
The entire chain of virus hunting work entails risks that can lead to accidental infection, from handling animals to experiments in the lab.
James Le Duc, a biosafety expert and virologist who collaborated closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, outlines how he might investigate whether that lab or any other in Wuhan could be implicated in the COVID-19 pandemic in an email obtained by U.S. Right to Know. In a June 2021 email titled “What would Jim … ‘What would Jim do?’: U.S. virologist close to Wuhan lab quietly called for investigation
