Researchers Refute Claims COVID Was Made In Lab

ABC News reports:

As factions inside President Donald Trump’s orbit have been floating theories about the novel coronavirus originating in a Chinese bio-research lab, U.S. scientists are hardening their belief that the virus emerged naturally, citing expanded research as proof.

Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane School of Medicine, authored one of the first major studies that refutes theories that COVID-19 was engineered as a biological weapon. He told ABC News the new focus of this research has been a special mutation that is thought to be what makes this coronavirus so contagious.

While some people initially speculated that laboratory work created that mutation, it is actually the opposite, Garry told ABC News. “When you pass the virus with that [mutation] through cell cultures, you actually lose it. So that is not the way it could’ve been generated,” Garry said. “It’s more than a hypothesis at this point.”

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