Slides: Class 24: Project Presentations and Covid Origins
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Letter organized by Peter Daszak, Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19, The Lancet, 19 February 2020. Addendum on competing interests, 21 June 2021.
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Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes and Robert F. Garry . The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Medicine, 17 March 2020.
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There are hundreds of articles with different viewpoints on the more likely origins of Covid-19. These are two of the more balanced ones:
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Carolyn Kormann. The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory. The New Yorker, 12 October 2021.
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Claire Felter. Will the World Ever Solve the Mystery of COVID-19’s Origin?. Council on Foreign Relations, 3 November 2021.
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Alina Chan and Matt Ridley’s book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 pretends to be balanced (and I believe is mostly solid), but has a clear agenda. Scott Aaronson’s (positive) Review, New Republic review (take down).
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ProPublica, COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab, 28 October 2022.
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Nick Wade, Proximal Orchestrations: Newly released emails cast more doubt than ever on the official story of Covid-19 as a naturally occurring virus. City Journal. 4 December 2022.