{"id":1900593,"date":"2023-03-18T05:13:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T09:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-animal-origin-scientists-now-point-toward-raccoon-dogs-as-lab-leak-hypothesis-grows\/"},"modified":"2023-03-18T05:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T09:14:25","slug":"covid-19-animal-origin-scientists-now-point-toward-raccoon-dogs-as-lab-leak-hypothesis-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-animal-origin-scientists-now-point-toward-raccoon-dogs-as-lab-leak-hypothesis-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 animal origin scientists now point toward raccoon dogs as lab leak hypothesis grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcovid-19-animal-origin-scientists-now-point-toward-raccoon-dogs-as-lab-leak-hypothesis-grows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1900593&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7 col-lg-8 col-xl-9 float-left body colgap-l-50\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBodyWrapper\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78207158\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping issues rare rebuke of US for 'suppression against us'\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a rare public rebuke of the United States for embarking on a crusade to thwart China's rise. 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These assessments point to Wuhan&#8217;s Wuhan lab as the source for the outbreak that led to a pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>According to the new article, scientists Kristian Andersen and Eddie Holmes, Michael Worobey (Angela Rasmussen), Stephen Goldstein, Stephen Worobey, and Florence Debarre were cited as having been involved in the analysis or discovery of the alleged Chinese data. <\/p>\n<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> Holmes, Andersen and Worobey &#8220;started mining the new genetic data last week&#8221; Rasmussen, Goldstein are also available. &#8220;worked on the new analysis.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Chinese government scientists had published their own study in February 2022 on this issue. <i>New York Times<\/i> Thursday&#8217;s news reported that Debarre had discovered new data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control (GISAID) last week. The data were then allegedly removed by international scientists who began asking questions. <\/p>\n<p>Richard Ebright is the Waksman Institute of Microbiology lab director at Rutgers University. He told the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> Friday, the raccoon dogs claim &#8220;adds little to the discussion&#8221; Because &#8220;the data do not indicate that a raccoon dog was infected with SARS-Cov-2, much less that a raccoon dog was infected with SARS-CoV-2 and then transmitted SARS-CoV-2 to a human.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Ebright said that &#8220;the claim should not be taken at face value&#8221; Partly because of the data in the article &#8220;not been made available for analysis.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Five of the scientists \u2014 Andersen, Holmes, Rasmussen, Worobey, and Goldstein \u2014 were authors of a controversial study whose preprint was also shared with and written about by the <i>New York Times<\/i> Debarre was thanked for his contribution in the acknowledgments to the study, February 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Preprint February 2022 claimed that their analyses &#8220;provide dispositive evidence for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 via the live wildlife trade and identify the Huanan market as the unambiguous epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.&#8221; Also, the preprint claimed that there was &#8220;incontrovertible evidence&#8221; Of a &#8220;clear conduit&#8221; natural emergence in the wet markets. However, none of these claims were included in the final version of the paper. <i>Science<\/i> In July 2022, after a peer-review. <\/p>\n<p>According to the five scientists, &#8220;we thank&#8221; Debarre &#8220;for comments and assistance&#8221; When the peer-reviewed version of the book was published last summer. <\/p>\n<div id=\"dsk-banner-ad-g\"><\/div>\n<p>Ebright claimed that &#8220;their track record of past false claims on the subject warrants extreme caution about their new claims on the subject, especially claims for which the data are not presented.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The <i>New York Times <\/i>Article, titled &#8220;New Data Links Pandemic&#8217;s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market,&#8221; Benjamin Mueller, a coronavirus reporter, wrote the article. The article acknowledged that the data were incorrect. &#8220;does not prove that a raccoon dog itself was infected&#8221; That and more &#8220;someone infected with the virus could have spread the virus to a raccoon dog.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mueller is also the author of the February 2022 article. &#8220;New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Christopher Wray, FBI Director <u>Confirmed<\/u> Last month, the bureau revealed that it had long believed COVID-19 was originated in a Chinese government laboratory. <u>The Energy Department believes in &#8220;low confidence&#8221;<\/u> That <u>The Wuhan lab was the first to develop the coronavirus.<\/u> <\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published an assessment stating that the FBI was the only U.S. intelligence agency. <u>Assessed with &#8220;moderate confidence&#8221;<\/u> COVID-19 <u>Most likely, it was the Wuhan lab.<\/u> While four U.S. intelligence agencies and the National Intelligence Council believed in just, &#8220;low confidence&#8221; COVID-19 was most likely of natural origin. <\/p>\n<p>Andersen, a Scripps Research Professor, has previously written to <i>Nature<\/i> In February 2020, he and others were featured in a magazine. &#8220;prompted&#8221; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and others, who were unable to discredit the laboratory leak theory. <\/p>\n<p>The most cited article <u>Publiziert<\/u> In <i>Nature<\/i> In March 2020, it was suggested that SARS-CoV-2 had developed suspicious binding receptors. &#8220;natural selection&#8221; It is not a laboratory leak. <u>There is some doubt that COVID-19 may have originated in a Wuhan lab.<\/u>. Andersen was also a co-author of the <i>Nature<\/i> Article written by Holmes, a British virus researcher. <\/p>\n<p>Emails that were previously published include <u>Notes from a conference call on February 1, 2020<\/u> At least 11 scientists, Holmes and Andersen included, had theorized about the virus\u2019s origin. <u>Many lean towards the laboratory leak.<\/u> Emails show that Dr. Francis Collins was the former director of the National Institutes of Health. <u>Worked<\/u> To <u>Close<\/u> This is the conclusion. <\/p>\n<p><b>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Maria Van Kerkhove (technical lead for COVID-19 at the World Health Organization) stated Friday that the raccoon dogs claim was unfortunately. &#8220;doesn&#8217;t give us the answer of how the pandemic began, but it does give us more clues.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, &#8220;These data could have \u2014 and should have \u2014 been shared three years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/covid-animal-origin-scientists-point-raccoon-dogs-lab-leak-hypothesis-grows\">COVID-19 animal origin scientists now point to raccoon dog as a lab leak hypothesis<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists who have long pushed the theory that COVID-19 may have emerged from a Wuhan, China, wet market has now pushed fresh claims involving raccoon dogs that have not been peer-reviewed \u2014 after the Wuhan lab leak possibility gained credence in recent weeks. 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