Covid-19: More disclosures

AS of this writing, no definitive finding has ever surfaced on how the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) originated. Although there has been scientific evidence that the virus is akin to that found in bats in southern China, nothing has been unearthed to prove that such a virus made a leap from its original hosts to humans. With no proof of such leap, it would be grossly wrong to conclude that the current Covid-19 pandemic did originate from the Chinese bats. Deductions that those bats were sold in the wet market of Wuhan and therefore caused the coronavirus to spread to humans must belong in the realm of conspiracy theories as much as notions of the virus being laboratory-made do.

In the latter case, however, factual proof abounds that there have been successes in producing a new pathogen through laboratory procedures. In one visit of the United States War secretary to the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (Usamriid), it was admitted that the coronavirus was provided the institute for multiplication and provision to various agencies for specific uses by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It was found during the visit that there have been security lapses in matters of handling the pathogen, giving rise to speculation that the virus had leaked in one way or another. The Usamriid is located in Fort Detrick, Maryland, where some of the US military personnel that participated in the Wuhan Military World Games in October 2019 came from.