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May 28, 2021 01:12 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/28/22458230/covid-origins-lab-leak-biden-vaccines-pandemic
We have bigger problems than COVID-19s origins
As the COVID-19 pandemic scales down in the United States, debates around the origins of the virus — and speculations that it came from a lab in China, not an animal — rumbled back to life. And they’re diverting attention to the wrong places. Focusing on where the virus came from is a distraction from the rest of the urgent work governments and health agencies around the world need to do in order to end this pandemic and prepare for the next one. We don’t need a consensus on the origins of COVID-19 in order to take steps to strengthen global public health.
That doesn’t mean finding out where the coronavirus came from isn’t important. It’s one of the pieces of information that could give us tools to prevent a similar situation from...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/28/22458230/covid-origins-lab-leak-biden-vaccines-pandemic
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