Wuhan Institute of Virology: China’s Ft. Detrick?
Review of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, by Chan and Ridley
This scholarly work presents an avalanche of evidence to
allow its readers to decide whether the COVID-19 virus escaped from China's
Wuhan Institute of Virology (or a nearby lab) or worked its way naturally 2000
kilometers (1200 miles) from bats in mines near Kunming to people in Wuhan. Its
narrative, timeline, and notes are almost encyclopedic. It ends by presenting
the arguments for a "natural" escape from the mines that are home to
the bats harboring the disease's closest relative versus escape from the laboratories
in Wuhan.
Having spent 1965 and 1966 as an army draftee at the U.S.
biological warfare and defense laboratories at Ft. Detrick in Frederick,
Maryland, I learned a bit about the relevant biology and epidemiology and the
difficulty of confining biological agents to the labs. If an epidemic today
were to have Frederick, MD, as its epicenter, I would be unlikely to believe
that the infection traveled from bat caves in our Southwest to Frederick, home
of Ft. Detrick, home of the relatively few labs doing such work.
The authors expertly present a wealth of information to
educate their readers and develop more informed views about this important
topic.
Douglas Winslow Cooper, PhD
A more politically charged presentation, one skeptical of
the prevailing media “narrative,” about the Covid-19 pandemic is Pandemia,
an excellent and highly readable book by Alex Berenson:
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