New book debunks Winnipeg-lab conspiracy theory but questions collaboration with Chinese military scientist
Journalist Elaine Dewar found 2019 virus shipment from National Microbiology Lab had no link to coronavirus
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This article was published 31/08/2021 (1502 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A new book concludes co-operation between Canada’s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg and China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology played no part in the origin of the coronavirus pandemic but raises questions about links between one of the researchers fired from the lab and a prominent Chinese virologist affiliated with the military.
Toronto-based freelance journalist Elaine Dewar says she set out to investigate the hypothesis that the coronavirus was leaked from the Wuhan lab by looking at the science and financial and geopolitical interests related to the theory.
As part of that, she looked into whether an approved shipment of Ebola and henipah viruses in March 2019 from the Winnipeg lab to Wuhan had anything to do with the pandemic after conspiracy theories suggesting it did surfaced online.
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