Saturday, August 15, 2020

Into the Pandemic - Refuting the Finger Pointing

One persistent theme during this pandemic is how the virus SARS-CoV-2 must have been manufactured in a Wuhan lab and released into the world.

Late in March, there was an article in Live Science.

The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab. Here's how we know.

It explains, in simple terms, why researchers believe that the virus quite simply moved from animals to humans, without human meddling along the way.  It also links to a Nature Medicine article where this research was reported.

So, that should be the end of the matter, for now.  Don't count on it, though.

Other myths persist.  One rather silly one is that all our hand washing will harm our immune systems.


We can also affirm that Trump didn't create the virus either.  However....


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