The Republican minority staff of a bipartisan Senate committee has issued an “interim report” arguing for the narrative that SARSCoV2 entered humans because of a lab-related incident and not a natural jump from animals to humans.
The mysterious origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, like so many aspects of the response to it, has created deep divides along party lines in the United States. Today, the Republican minority staff of a bipartisan Senate committee set up to probe the origin of SARS-CoV-2 issued an “interim report” arguing for the narrative that the virus entered humans because of a lab-related incident and not a natural jump from animals to humans.
“Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident,” the minority staff concludes in its. That conclusion stands in sharp contrast to those of other panels, including from the World Health Organization and U.S.
Senator Richard Burr , the ranking member of the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions , wrote in a forward to the report that the minority oversight staff spent 15 months reviewing scientific studies and interviewing experts. The goal, Burr wrote, was “to provide a clearer picture of what we know, so far, about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 so that we can continue to work together to be better prepared to respond to future public health threats.
Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who has co-authored scientific reports examining data from the early days of the pandemic that provide some of the strongest support for a jump from animals to humans, speculates that the timing of the report’s release could be “a cynical effort to try to win Republican votes” in the upcoming midterm congressional and state elections.
Worobey’s origin papers, which argue for a zoonotic jump at a market in Wuhan, China, come in for significant criticism in the report, to which he responded today into two reporters who sent him questions based on a draft of the report they apparently obtained in advance of its release. “These comments are either intentionally misleading or the result of honest misunderstandings, perhaps due to a failure to read our papers, which address these issues in great detail,” Worobey wrote.
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