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China's supposed coverup of COVID19 outbreak

Anti-China narratives regarding COVID19 range from a benign examining the timeline of the outbreak through to conspiracy theories about lab leaks and bioweaponry.

Lab leak theory

Scientific opinion

Not ruling it out

“Scientists don’t have enough evidence about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 to rule out the lab-leak hypothesis, or to prove the alternative — that the virus has a natural origin.” ( Nature, Maxmen and Mallapaty, 2021) (web).

Refuting

Scientist on the ground dismisses theory: Scientists 'on the ground' dismiss the theory (Anderson, 2021)
Scientific report - The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review, Holmes, Goldstein, Rasmussen, Robertson, Crits-Christoph, Wertheim, Anthony, Barclay, Boni, Maciej, Doherty, Farrar, Geoghegan, Jiang, Leibowitz, Neil, Skern, Weiss, Worobey, Andersen, Garry, Rambaut, 2021)

Advocating

Political propaganda

Erin O'Toole (Twitter video). Review of this video.