They are neither satisfied nor convinced by the explanations given so far on the origin of the virus responsible for the Covid-19 epidemic. In an open letter published by Le Figaro, scientists around the world are calling for “a full investigation” on this subject. With or without the participation of the Chinese.
- The origin of the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic is still unknown
- This pandemic is responsible for almost 4 million deaths to date.
- Scientists call for a more transparent investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2 than the investigations carried out so far
In open letter published exclusively in Le Figaro, researchers from many countries including France are calling for a real investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2 which caused the Covid pandemic responsible to date for nearly four million deaths worldwide. Virus present in bats and transmitted to humans directly or by an intermediate host, laboratory accident, natural virus or to which manipulations would have brought a gain in function? Despite some assertions rather in the direction of animal origin and supposed to rule out the thesis of a pathogen escaped from a laboratory, we know NOTHING about the real source of the coronavirus which plunged the world into a health crisis of an unprecedented scale.
Enough to feed all the hypotheses, including the most Manichean ones, but above all enough to leave many scientists hungry! So they are about thirty to take up the pen to ask for an investigation worthy of the name, “if possible with the participation of the Chinese government“. They are not satisfied with the conclusions of the work carried out in February 2021 within the framework of a WHO investigation following which the Chinese government had claimed that the origin of the virus was … outside the borders. from this country. “The measures taken by the Chinese government to cover the traces and prevent Chinese experts from sharing certain essential information show that the current process has no possibility of setting up a complete and credible investigation into all possible scenarios.“, underline the signatories of the letter published by Le Figaro.
A call to world leaders
By insisting that not knowing the origins of a pandemic”puts everyone and future generations at unnecessary risk“, they call “world leaders“to choose between two options to guarantee”as thorough an investigation as possible”. First option, that which supposes a cooperation of China and which should “be based on an explicit mandate to fully investigate all plausible hypotheses of origin“, the scientists knowingly citing among the theses to be investigated that of “the research accident“. This option should, according to them, be based on “a multidisciplinary team of international experts” out of “any conflict of interest or unjustified bias” and having the means to “conduct a full scientific investigation, with access to all files, open to interviews with Chinese experts without supervision or control (by their) government“and allowing”sharing of collected data“, all of this “within an inflexible period of 2 months after acceptance by the Chinese authorities and the start (of work) in the field“.
Securing whistleblowers
Second option, the one to adopt “if the Chinese authorities did not authorize this type of investigation“: it would then be necessary, according to the signatory scientists, that “groups of nations coordinating around an organization or other mechanism establish an alternative inquiry based on science and data“. Concretely, this would require, according to them, “testing of hospital and environmental samples to better understand the emergence and spread of SQARS-CoV-2, an assessment of the pet trade in Southeast Asia and China, a detailed analysis of all known coronaviruses, an assessment of the main characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and the current weight of evidence in favor of each scenario“. But the researchers add other conditions that clearly show the mistrust they continue to have regarding the ability of the Chinese but also of those involved in the work of the Wuhan Institute of Virology to accept the transparent search for origins. of the virus. In addition to “lacquisition of documents and data from North American and European partners of the Wuhan laboratory“, they wish “a secure program for whistleblowers to safely share information from China and abroad and the review of forensic evidence collected by intelligence agencies” and, of course, “le refusal to grant the Chinese government a possible right of veto“.
For the signatories of this open letter, “a thorough investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will (thus) always remain possible and must be pursued for the common good“.
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