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- A new leak from China gives the world a glimpse at the purported coronavirus spread inside the infamous Wuhan market, which was initially believed to be the source of COVID-19.
- The map, dating back to January 22-23, doesn’t offer any conclusions that could get us closer to the virus's origin. However, it proves that China has been investigating the Wuhan outbreak in great detail and that it might be sitting on conclusions that it’s yet to share with the world.
- In May, the Chinese CDC said that the Wuhan market was a victim rather than the source, correcting the initial narrative about the first known COVID-19 outbreak. Since then, China has tried to shift the blame to other countries while delaying a joint investigation with the WHO.
The initial novel coronavirus origin story said that the pathogen jumped from an animal to humans and that infectious occurred at a Wuhan market. At the time, it was believed that the virus could not move from human to human. China never explained which animal might have passed the illness to humans since then, although a joint investigation with the WHO is still pending. But soon after that, we learned that some of the first COVID-19 patients had no contact with the market, which was a puzzling discovery for an infectious illness that could not move in the human population. China then confirmed the virus could spread between people, with many people criticizing both the country and the WHO for their delayed actions at the time on the matter. The recent “Wuhan Files” leaks revealed a combination of incompetence, cover-ups, and mismanagement in the early days of the Wuhan outbreak that might have worsened the world's early response to the pandemic.
In late May, the director of China’s CDC said the Wuhan market was a victim, rather than a source of the illness, without revealing what the source of the illness might be. As more Western nations discovered that their COVID-19 epidemics might have started well before December 2019, China shifted its story to suggest that the virus might have started spreading elsewhere before reaching Wuhan via frozen food packages. The latest Chinese paper on the origin of the virus proposes India and Bangladesh as the possible sources of the pandemic. Separately, geneticists found that the coronavirus strain that’s responsible for the pandemic originates in the country.
The Wuhan market remains a key element of the COVID-19 story, one that researchers will have to study in great detail. The latest Wuhan leak gives the world a look at a version of the maps that Chinese researchers created for the market to understand how the virus might have spread.
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Coronavirus origin mystery deepens with leaked map of Wuhan market originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 19:08:34 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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