SARS-CoV-2: What Does Science Tell Us?
SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the disease COVID-19, is a serious threat. If there is good news, though, it is that it may not be as deadly as previously thought.
It’s a bioweapon: That was the first reaction from many when word of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus started reaching people from China. Even a U.S. senator wondered about the origin of the virus, given that the outbreak reportedly started in a “wet market” that was not far from what Nature described in 2017 as “China’s pathogen lab,” the “maximum-security biosafety facility” in Wuhan.
“We … know that just a few miles away from that food market is China’s only … laboratory that researches human infectious diseases,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said, according to Fox Business. “Now we don’t have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning we need to at least ask the question.”
Indeed, as Nature reported just a few years earlier, “Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping” from Wuhan’s biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) lab.
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