Tag: Peter Ben Embarek

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Heather Zeiger
Date
August 19, 2021

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Medicine and Health

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COVID-19, COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis, Peter Ben Embarek, World Health Organization (WHO), Wuhan, Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan Institute of Virology}

China Brief: Update on COVID-19 Origins

_{More evidence points to China's attempted suppression of human error as the origin of COVID-19} _{Heather Zeiger

August 19, 2021

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In January a team from the World Health Organization traveled to Wuhan, Hubei in China to investigate the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) outbreak. Team lead Dr. Peter Ben Embarek said in the press conference that a lab accident was “extremely unlikely” as the cause of the Covid-19 outbreak. He stuck to the Party line that the virus likely jumped from animals to humans or that it could have been imported from frozen food deliveries. Embarek has since changed his position. In a documentary aired on Danish television on August 12, Embarek said that the pandemic was likely due to a lab accident and he admitted that the team was pressured by Chinese authorities to not mention the lab leak Read More ›

Asian woman is wearing facial mask during virus epidemic

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
March 1, 2021

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Media, Medicine and Health, Science

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Centers for Disease Control (CDC), China, COVID-19, COVID-19 frozen food hypothesis, COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis, Dominic Dwyer, Featured, Kai Kupferschmidt, Nature (journal) on COVID-19, Peter Ben Embarek, Peter Daszak, SARS-CoV-2, Science Magazine on COVID-19, Scott Gottlieb, WHO COVID-19 investigation in China, World Health Organization (WHO), Wuhan Institute of Virology}

Was the WHO Investigation of COVID-19’s Origin Thwarted by China?

_{The World Health Organization team was not really allowed to conduct a proper investigation in China} _{Heather Zeiger

March 1, 2021

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Media, Medicine and Health, Science}

On January 14, 2021, an international team from the World Health Organization (WHO) landed in Wuhan in Hubei province in China to investigate the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19. From the outset, the investigation was plagued with three issues: 1) It ‘s been a year since the outbreak in Wuhan, which makes an investigation into the origins of the outbreak difficult. 2) WHO has catered to the Chinese government since the beginning of the pandemic, and 3) the scientists involved in the investigation had to be approved by Beijing. Two of them had conflicts of interest. When the WHO team arrived, they faced additional barriers to a thorough investigation. They were quarantined for two weeks so they Read More ›