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Is it important that we find out whether SAR-CoV-2 originated from a natural source or due to human activity in a lab? Of course it is! The solutions you need to apply to each source are entirely different. Getting this right is important for all sorts of reasons. Not least of those reasons is that millions of lives were lost and billions of lives were upended as a consequence.

Alina Chan told British MPs that a lab leak is "the most likely" source of the Wuhan virus. She also asked the Lancet to share the research it received from Chinese scientists. Palki Sharma tells you how the lab leak theory is back in focus.

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Alina Chan and Matt Ridley participate in a UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee panel discussing the search for the origin of COVID-19. Matt and Alina begin speaking at 0:18:45 if you would prefer to skip ahead. --- Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 is available now: https://originofcovid.com

"Burden of prove of a natural origin is on the virogists working on thes viruses in Wuhan"

“Viral,” a new book by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, is the most sophisticated and detailed analysis of the origin of COVID-19 published to date: a master class on how emerging outbreaks—both natural and lab-based—have been tracked, and the history of novel coronavirus research in different countries leading up to the pandemic.

THE Wuhan Institute of Virology was given permission to engage in experimental research involving highly-pathogenic viruses just 10 days before the first recorded case of COVID-19. A Sky News special investigation can reveal the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s level 3 laboratory, where Shi Zhengli is director, had just been given permission by the Chinese Government to conduct even risker experiments on November 7, 2019.

Baruch Fischhoff moderates a session in which a panel of academic, government and industry representatives discuss how GOF research could potentially benefit the acceleration of vaccine and antiviral development. The panel includes Philip Dormitzer (synthetic influenza vaccine viruses), Ralph Baric (vaccines targeting coronaviruses), Jerry Weir (regulatory perspective on viral manipulation for biologics), and Mark Denison (GOF research and countermeasures against SARS and MERS.)