On the origins and the specious: the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak theory

The Intelligence from The Economist

• Episode: On the origins and the specious: the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak theory
• Website: The Intelligence from The Economist
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• Duration: 00:20:43
• Published: 2021-05-27 11:51

The suggestion that the virus first emerged from a Chinese laboratory has proved stubbornly persistent; as calls mount for more investigation, it has become a potent epidemiological and political idea. Latin America’s strict lockdowns have had the expected calamitous economic effects. We look at the region’s prospects for recovery. And the tricky business of artificially inseminating a shark.

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