the Academy of Medicine leans for a laboratory accident

2023-04-20 15:04:00

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The reference medical authority in France has broken the taboo of an origin linked to manipulations by virologists in Wuhan.

Par Jeremy Andre

An aerial view of the P4 laboratory at the campus of the Institute of Virology in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province, May 27, 2020.
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Published on 04/20/2023 at 5:04 p.m.

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LDid Covid-19 result from a laboratory accident? In 2020, if the question had been asked officially at the National Academy of Medicine, the debates would have made the headlines. Today, a dedicated session organized by academicians Christine Rouzioux and Patrick Berche can go almost completely unnoticed, as the public seems determined to turn the page. Even though some speakers have discreetly pleaded in favor of the hypothesis of an origin linked to research, which would obviously constitute the greatest scientific scandal of all time…

Announced on the academy’s website at the beginning of April, the program was nevertheless very explicit: “From the origin of Sars-CoV-2 to dangerous virology/biology. » Link origin of the pandemic…

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