Investigation of the Covid-19 origin

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 2 years ago

“China must be more forthcoming with data and information related to the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. We need to continue until we know the origins, we need to push harder because we should learn from what happened this time in order to (do) better in the future.”

Reuters

Director-General of the World Health Organization

20 Dec 2021 3 1

Richard Ebright

Inserted 2 years ago

“There is no secure basis to assign relative probabilities to the natural-accident (animal to human) hypothesis and the laboratory-accident hypothesis. In particular, all scientific data related to the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and the epidemiology of COVID-19 are equally consistent with a natural-accident origin or a laboratory-accident origin. This was clear already in January 2020, and has been clear at every point in time from January 2020 through the present.”

Aljazeera

Professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University

06 Jun 2021 3 1

J Stephen Morrison

Inserted 2 years ago

“The question of whether a lab accident was the origin got stuck in this hyper-politicised context. When Trump was instrumentalising the issue as part of an anti-China and anti-Asia campaign, people didn't want to associate with that. And so they kept their distance.”

Aljazeera

Director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

06 Jun 2021 3 1

Dale Fisher

Inserted 2 years ago

“We believe that all the laboratory workers have had serology [tests] done and all those antibody tests were negative and that was part of the reason why the risk was downplayed. We believe that all the laboratory workers have had serology [tests] done and all those antibody tests were negative and that was part of the reason why the risk was downplayed... Any country that found any Covid-19 in its borders before the outbreak started would suddenly clam up. This is why I would argue that diplomacy is the way forward with this, creating a no-blame culture. The only way you really can get to the bottom of this is just to say: 'Look, there's no penalties, we just need to sort this out.'.”

Theguardian

Chair of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

30 May 2021 2 1

Jamie Metzl

Inserted 2 years ago

“Very clearly they [China] are trying to internationalise their way out of the jam they are in [by pointing to the possibility that COVID-19 originated in another country]. The pandemic started in China. Let's start with a full investigation there and expand as necessary. In short, this (statement from the embassy) is an outrageous insult to every person who has died from this terrible tragedy and their families.”

Reuters

Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank

27 May 2021 2 2

Yanzhong Huang

Inserted 2 years ago

“There's nothing really new there to prove the hypothesis. In the investigation of the origins of the pandemic it is really important to have transparency in order to build trust in the investigation results. Ideally you want China to be more cooperative and more transparent. But now the issue has become so politicised, with the stakes of the investigation so high.”

Reuters

Senior fellow for global health at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations

27 May 2021 3 2

Jen Psaki

Inserted 2 years ago

“We don't have enough information to draw a conclusion about the origins [of the coronavirus]. We need data. We need an independent investigation. And that's exactly what we've been calling for.”

Aljazeera

White House spokeswoman

24 May 2021 2 2

Jamie Metzl

Inserted 3 years ago

“China has databases of what viruses were being held... there are lab notes of the work that was being done. There are all kinds of scientists who are actually doing the work and we don't have access to any of those resources, or any of those people.”

Reuters

Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank

07 Apr 2021 1 2

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 3 years ago

“In my discussions with the team, they expressed the difficulties they encountered in accessing raw data. I expect future collaborative studies to include more timely and comprehensive data sharing. I welcome the recommendations for further studies to understand the earliest human cases and clusters, to trace the animals sold at markets in and around Wuhan, and to better understand the range of potential animal hosts and intermediaries. The role of animal markets is still unclear. The team has confirmed that there was widespread contamination with SARS-CoV-2 in the Huanan market in Wuhan, but could not determine the source of this contamination... The team also visited several laboratories in Wuhan and considered the possibility that the virus entered the human population as a result of a laboratory incident. However, I do not believe that this assessment was extensive enough. Further data and studies will be needed to reach more robust conclusions. Although the team has concluded that a laboratory leak is the least likely hypothesis, this requires further investigation, potentially with additional missions involving specialist experts, which I am ready to deploy.”

Who

Director-General of the World Health Organization

30 Mar 2021 3 1

Jen Psaki

Inserted 3 years ago

“The report lacks crucial data, information, and access. It represents a partial and incomplete picture. There was a joint statement, as I noted, that was put out. We also welcome a similar statement from the EU and EU members, sending a clear message that the global community shares these concerns. There are steps from here that we believe should be taken. There's a second stage in this process that we believe should be led by international and independent experts. They should have unfettered access to data. They should be able to ask questions of people who are on the ground at this point in time, and that's a step the WHO could take.”

Whitehouse

White House spokeswoman

30 Mar 2021 5 2

Peter Ben Embarek

Inserted 3 years ago

“We want more data. We have asked for more data.”

Aljazeera

Danish scientist and Programme Manager at World Health Organization specialising in food safety and zoonoses

13 Feb 2021 3 3

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Inserted 3 years ago

“Some questions have been raised as to whether some hypotheses have been discarded. Having spoken with some members of the team, I wish to confirm that all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and studies. Some of that work may lie outside the remit and scope of this mission. We have always said that this mission would not find all the answers, but it has added important information that takes us closer to understanding the origins of the virus.”

Aljazeera

Director-General of the World Health Organization

12 Feb 2021 2 2

Peter Daszak

Inserted 3 years ago

“Well now this. Joe biden has to look tough on China. Please don't rely too much on US intel: increasingly disengaged under Trump & frankly wrong on many aspects. Happy to help WH w/ their quest to verify, but don't forget it's “TRUST” then “VERIFY!”

Twitter

Member of the WHO team which led investigation in China about the origin of Covid-19

09 Feb 2021 1 3

Rick Scott

Inserted 3 years ago

“The mission of the WHO [World Health Organization] is to get public health information to the world so every country can make the best decisions to keep their citizens safe. The WHO not only failed its mission, but it failed the world when it comes to the coronavirus. They served as a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party - parroting misinformation and helping communist China cover up a global pandemic. Last February, I called on the WHO to do its own in-depth analysis on the extent and origins of the coronavirus. It took them nearly a year to take action and we still have no answer. They are complicit in communist China's effort to isolate Taiwan. There is no reason US taxpayers should be spending hundreds of millions a year, more than any other country, to fund the WHO without significant reform.”

Taipeitimes

Republican senator for Florida

09 Feb 2021 5 5

Peter Ben Embarek

Inserted 3 years ago

“The findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus to the human population.”

Apnews

Danish scientist and Programme Manager at World Health Organization specialising in food safety and zoonoses

09 Feb 2021 2 2

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Chinese government has provided vigorous help and support to the WHO expert team [in Wuhan] and Chinese experts have shared a great deal of information and research results with them while helping deepen exchanges with the scientists. Tracing the origins of the virus is a complicated scientific question involving many countries and places as well as many clues, and some evidence suggested that the outbreak occurred in the second half of 2019 in many other places around the world. For example, a US CDC report said in December 2019, some blood samples of Americans tested positive for antibodies of COVID-19, which means the epidemic might have occurred at that time, earlier than the first COVID-19 case reported in the country, which was January 21, 2020”

Globaltimes

Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

02 Feb 2021 7 3

Thea Fischer

Inserted 3 years ago

“It is important to remember that the success of this mission and origin-tracing is 100% depending on access to the relevant sources. No matter how competent we are, how hard we work and how many stones we try to turn, this can only be possible with the support from China.”

Reuters

Danish member of the WHO-led team in Wuhan probing COVID origins

28 Jan 2021 3 1

Chen Chien-jen

Inserted 3 years ago

“Sort of. It’s one of the possibilities. If people are not doing their research carefully, they are likely to get the infection. There was a scenario in Taiwan. In December [2003], at our Institute of Preventive Medicine that belongs to the National Defence Medical College, a P4 lab, a colonel was carrying on a study but he was rushing to Singapore to attend a meeting. So he took care of everything, but he saw in the garbage tank there was one piece of garbage, and he just used his bare hands to take it out and put in the disinfection tank. Then he went to Singapore to attend a SARS international conference but he was infected after he came back. He did not transmit it to anyone but it created [political] turbulence because 100 people were at the conference. He was a very careful person and a very good scientist and still only a small mistake and he was infected. It’s not unusual for lab workers to get an infection. It’s one possibility, so it needs investigation.”

Aljazeera

Taiwan’s former vice-president and health minister

22 Jan 2021 3 2

Chen Chien-jen

Inserted 3 years ago

“Transparency and openness is very important for the containment of infectious diseases. If the situation in Wuhan was very well reported to the World Health Organisation and the WHO organised a team and went to Wuhan in mid-December 2019, I think the disease could have been contained and no other countries would have suffered.”

Aljazeera

Taiwan’s former vice-president and health minister

22 Jan 2021 6 3

Marise Payne

Inserted 3 years ago

“We hope that the necessary permissions for the WHO team’s travel to China can be issued without delay. We look forward to the findings from the international field mission to China.”

Aljazeera

Australia’s foreign minister

07 Jan 2021 4 2

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“China must be more forthcoming with data and information related to the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. We need to continue until we know the origins, we need to push harder because we should learn from what happened this time in order to (do) better in the future.”

“The question of whether a lab accident was the origin got stuck in this hyper-politicised context. When Trump was instrumentalising the issue as part of an anti-China and anti-Asia campaign, people didn't want to associate with that. And so they kept their distance.”

“We don't have enough information to draw a conclusion about the origins [of the coronavirus]. We need data. We need an independent investigation. And that's exactly what we've been calling for.”

“China has databases of what viruses were being held... there are lab notes of the work that was being done. There are all kinds of scientists who are actually doing the work and we don't have access to any of those resources, or any of those people.”

“We want more data. We have asked for more data.”

“Well now this. Joe biden has to look tough on China. Please don't rely too much on US intel: increasingly disengaged under Trump & frankly wrong on many aspects. Happy to help WH w/ their quest to verify, but don't forget it's “TRUST” then “VERIFY!”

“The findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus to the human population.”

“It is important to remember that the success of this mission and origin-tracing is 100% depending on access to the relevant sources. No matter how competent we are, how hard we work and how many stones we try to turn, this can only be possible with the support from China.”

“We hope that the necessary permissions for the WHO team’s travel to China can be issued without delay. We look forward to the findings from the international field mission to China.”

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