w*****n
发帖数: 368 | 1 此人是天朝自己选出来的世卫调查组组长。他对天朝一向友好，他的立场在天朝之外的
所有国家看来是公正合理。
天朝的抵赖诬陷越来越难。不久的将来天朝的非洲兄弟也要加入索赔群殴天朝的行列。 | M*********g
发帖数: 1 | | w*****n
发帖数: 368 | 3 https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-joe-biden-business-health-
coronavirus-pandemic-986f0ff0f97af020de3b4eb3d76b23cd
WHO expert ‘had concerns’ about lab close to 1st COVID cases
By MARIA CHENG
yesterday
FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, Peter Ben Embarek
of a World Health Organization team speaks to journalists as he arrives at
the airport to leave, at the end of their WHO mission to investigate the
origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei
province. When WHO traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the
origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Ben Embarek said he was worried
about biosafety standards at a laboratory close to the market where the
first human cases were detected, according to a documentary released
Thursday Aug. 12, 2021, by TV2, a Danish television channel. (AP Photo/Ng
Han Guan, FILE)
LONDON (AP) — When a World Health Organization-led team traveled to China
earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top
official said he was worried about safety standards at a laboratory close
to the seafood market where the first human cases were detected, according
to a documentary released Thursday by Danish television channel TV2.
The Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
was handling coronaviruses “without potentially having the same level of
expertise or safety or who knows,” Peter Ben Embarek said during a
conference call in January, according to footage shown by TV2. Ben Embarek
is a WHO expert on disease transmission from animals to humans and one of
the team’s leaders
But months later, when WHO released its dense report on its mission to Wuhan
, the U.N. health agency concluded that a leak of the virus from the lab was
“extremely unlikely” to have caused COVID-19. The WHO report even lent
credence to a fringe theory promoted by the Chinese government that the
virus may have been spread via frozen seafood packaging.
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In recent weeks, however, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has
acknowledged it was “ premature ” to rule out a possible lab leak as the
source of COVID-19, saying last month that he was asking China to be more
transparent about the early days of the pandemic.
“I was a lab technician myself. I’m an immunologist and I have worked in
the lab and lab accidents happen,” Tedros said. “It’s common.”
In the Danish TV2 documentary, the WHO’s Ben Embarek is pictured arriving
in China, inspecting the stalls at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan and
examining what he hypothesizes might have been living quarters for people
who handled live animals there — raising the possibility that the virus may
have jumped from animals to people at the market.
“It would mean that the contact between the human beings and whatever may
have been in the market i.e. virus and maybe live animals would have been
more intense,” Ben Embarek said. “It goes without saying that the close
contact would be doubled many times between humans and animals if you are
among them around the clock.”
Scientists have previously thought that because many of the earliest known
human cases at Wuhan’s Huanan market appeared to have no prior connection
to each other, the market might have simply been the place where cases were
amplified, not where the virus first breached the species barrier.
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The Danish documentary also featured Ben Embarek expressing his worries in
January about the Wuhan branch of the Chinese CDC, concerns that have never
been publicly disclosed by WHO. While numerous experts have questioned
whether there might have been a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of
Virology — where scientists were studying coronaviruses — there has been
less interest in another nearby facility.
“What is more concerning to me is the other lab,” Ben Embarek said. “The
one that is next to the market,” he explained, referring to the Wuhan
branch of the Chinese CDC, located just 500 meters (547 yards) away from the
Huanan market.
In a June interview, Ben Embarek told TV2 that the possibility of a lab
staffer being infected with the coronavirus while collecting bat samples was
“likely.”
Although the idea that the pandemic somehow started in a laboratory was
largely dismissed last year, it has gained traction recently, with U.S.
President Joe Biden ordering a review of U.S. intelligence and i ncreasing
numbers of scientists calling for an independent investigation to be
conducted by authorities beyond the WHO.
Jamie Metzl, who has been leading an effort calling for an independent
investigation of how COVID-19 started, called Ben Embarek’s comments “a
game-changer,” describing his earlier declaration that a lab leak was
unlikely “shameful.”
“It’s even more significant that the international expert team who stated
with such confidence in the February Wuhan press event that a lab origin was
unlikely themselves believed this was not the case and were simply trying
to assuage their Chinese government-affiliated hosts,” said Metzl, who sits
on a WHO advisory board on human genome editing.
All of the scientists on the WHO-led team were approved by China and the
team’s agenda and final report were also vetted by the Chinese government.
Ben Embarek told TV2 the purpose of the WHO team’s visit was “
collaboration and discussion” with China.
In a statement on Thursday, the WHO said the search for the pandemic’s
origins “should not be an exercise in attributing blame, finger-pointing or
political point-scoring.” The agency said its first analysis of the
coronavirus origins found “there was insufficient scientific evidence to
rule any of the hypotheses out.”
____
David Keyton in Stockholm and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this
report. | m*******1
发帖数: 1 | 4 属实
【在 w*****n 的大作中提到】
: 此人是天朝自己选出来的世卫调查组组长。他对天朝一向友好，他的立场在天朝之外的
: 所有国家看来是公正合理。
: 天朝的抵赖诬陷越来越难。不久的将来天朝的非洲兄弟也要加入索赔群殴天朝的行列。
| E**********j
发帖数: 1 | 5 没办法还是cia厉害啊，
拜登都下令两个月破案了，
cia策反几个人就是小菜一碟。 | p***q
发帖数: 21 | | w*****n
发帖数: 368 | 7 National Review
WHO Expert Says Chinese Officials Pushed Investigators to Reject Lab-Leak
Theory
Brittany Bernstein
Thu, August 12, 2021, 3:07 PM·4 min read
In this article:
Peter Ben Embarek
Danish scientist and Programme Manager at World Health Organization
Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO food safety and animal diseases expert who led
the organization’s investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus,
says in a new documentary that Chinese colleagues influenced the
presentation of the team’s findings.
In The Virus Mystery, airing Thursday night on Danish television, Ben
Embarek says Chinese researchers in the group fought against connecting the
origins of the pandemic to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in a report
detailing the investigation.
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“In the beginning, they didn’t want anything about the lab [in the report]
, because it was impossible, so there was no need to waste time on that,”
Ben Embarek said. “We insisted on including it, because it was part of the
whole issue about where the virus originated.”
The team, which included experts from ten countries, released a report in
March saying the virus was likely spread from an animal to humans, calling a
theory that the virus was released in a lab accident “extremely unlikely.
” The researchers said they would not recommend further investigation.
In the new documentary, Ben Embarek says a discussion of whether to include
the lab-leak theory in the report at all lasted until two days before the
conclusion of the mission.
He said ultimately his Chinese counterpart agreed to discuss the lab-leak
theory in the report “on the condition we didn’t recommend any specific
studies to further that hypothesis.”
The documentarians asked Ben Embarek whether the report’s use of the phrase
“extremely unlikely” was required by the Chinese researchers.
Ben Embarek said “it was the category we chose to put it in at the end, yes
.”
However, he noted that was meant to say that the theory was not likely, but
not impossible.
He added that one possibility was that a lab employee could have
accidentally brought the virus to Wuhan after collecting samples in the
field, which would be both a lab-leak theory and a hypothesis of direct
infection from a bat, which was described as “likely” in the report.
“A lab employee infected in the field while collecting samples in a bat
cave — such a scenario belongs both as a lab-leak hypothesis and as our
first hypothesis of direct infection from bat to human. We’ve seen that
hypothesis as a likely hypothesis,” Ben Embarek said.
He also suggested in comments during the interview that were not included in
the documentary that there could have been “human error,” though the
Chinese political system does not allow authorities to admit that.
“It probably means there’s a human error behind such an event, and they’
re not very happy to admit that,” Ben Embarek said, the Danish channel TV2
reported on its website.“The whole system focuses a lot on being infallible
, and everything must be perfect,” he added. “Somebody could also wish to
hide something. Who knows?”
Ben Embarek walked back his comments in a statement to the Washington Post,
saying the interview had been mistranslated in English-language media
coverage.
A WHO spokesperson similarly said the comment was mistranslated and noted
that the interview happened “months ago.”
“There are no new elements nor [a] change of the position [that] all
hypothesis are on the table and WHO works with member states on the next
step,” the spokesperson said.
Health experts the world over have said that the novel coronavirus likely
originated in Wuhan, China in November 2019. Scientists in recent months
have questioned whether the virus originated at a live animal market in
Wuhan or was the result of a lab accident at one of the city’s two
laboratories — the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Centers for
Disease Control — that had been studying coronaviruses that originated in
bats.
China has argued that the virus did not start within its borders and instead
has peddled other theories that the virus may have originated elsewhere.
Beijing has worked hard to control the narrative surrounding the virus,
punishing citizen journalists who spoke out against the government’s
explanation of events. The government has also controlled all research in
the country into the origins of the virus, according to the Associated Press.
Last month, the head of the WHO said it was “premature” to rule out the
possibility that the novel coronavirus leaked from a laboratory.
The WHO is “asking actually China to be transparent, open and cooperate,
especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days
of the pandemic,” director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a
press conference on July 15.
He said there had been a “premature push” to rule out a lab-leak as the
origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
The lab-leak hypothesis has received renewed attention in recent months
after President Biden ordered the U.S. intelligence community to assess the
likelihood of a leak in May. | s******g
发帖数: 536 | 8 Still, no evidence, only speculations. |
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