Research shows COVID-19 was not manufactured in a lab

“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.”

"Actually natural evolution", "Didn't come from a lab in China, this wasn't engineered" rated "Unlikely"

2:00 "Wearing Masks is probably the most important thing"...WOW

Lab leak Covid-19 theory is like something out of a comic book, virologist says

Genetic study shows the virus carries all the messy hallmarks of nature and none of the fingerprints that would have been left behind by laboratory manipulation.

“What are the things that argue against a lab leak? There are a whole lot of them,” Garry told CNN.

Theories about a laboratory leak being the source of the coronavirus pandemic sound like something out of a comic book

Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University and other virologists have been publishing studies for a year that demonstrate SARS-CoV-2 originated naturally in animals and is unlikely to have been engineered in a lab.

World Health Organization report released Tuesday says the lab leak theory is the least likely of four scenarios its investigators considered. Most likely: the virus spread from its natural host, probably a bat, to another animal and then to people.

(SOoooo much more denial....)

U.S. intel community examining whether coronavirus emerged accidentally from a Chinese lab

Spy agencies have ruled out that the coronavirus was man-made, the officials say

Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?

In Koontz's novel, "Wuhan-400" is a human-made weapon. The coronavirus, on the other hand, was not.

Was Charles Lieber Arrested for Selling the COVID-19 Coronavirus to China?

What's False
Lieber's arrest had nothing to do with the novel coronavirus, nor was that virus "developed" or "manufactured" by anyone (in China or elsewhere).

, wild speculation went viral and unfounded connections were drawn between Lieber and a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was a lab-made bioweapon. 

there’s no evidence to support claims that this disease was a human-made bioweapon.

Is coronavirus a man-made bio-weapon?
In short: There is no evidence that coronavirus was human-made and several leading researchers have debunked this notion. 

While this conspiracy theory has started to receive some mainstream attention (it was even pushed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton), there is no evidence to support this claim. 

In fact, several researchers have debunked this claim, calling it illogical and noting that the current evidence indicates that the coronavirus mutated naturally.

Trevor Bedford of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle stated at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle that “There is no evidence whatsoever of genetic engineering that we can find. The evidence we have is that the mutations [in the virus] are completely consistent with natural evolution.”

Two more researchers gave statements to The Washington Post:
“There’s absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered,” said Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University. “The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded.”
Vipin Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it is “highly unlikely” the general population was exposed to a virus through an accident at a lab.
“We don’t have any evidence for that,” said Narang, a political science professor with a background in chemical engineering.
“It’s a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon that the Chinese developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed,” Narang said

The Origins and Scientific Failings of the COVID-19 'Bioweapon' Conspiracy Theory

“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.”

Does George Soros Own a Lab That 'Developed' COVID-19?

We've extensively covered the false notion that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was bioengineered in a lab in Wuhan, China

All credible scientific evidence indicates the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved or mutated and was not bioengineered,

COVID-19 Is a Serious Threat ... But So Are Memes Claiming It's NOT

far-fetched conspiracy theories, ranging from the idea that this virus was a "man-made bioweapon" (false)

Did Obama Admin Give Wuhan Laboratory a $3.7 Million Grant?

the evidence-free suggestion that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 had “escaped” from this lab

Shared by Emery https://x.com/debunker/status/1254606607809277953?s=20

Did Nobel Laureate Tasuku Honjo Say COVID-19 Was 'Man-Made'?
Unlike new viruses, quotes can be manufactured with ease.

While dozens of medical experts have already debunked this idea (the evidence indicates that the virus evolved naturally), this bit of misinformation continued to spread on social media.

China did not "invent" this virus

this rumor is all based on the unfounded notion that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon. You can read our examination of that false conspiracy theory here.

(Links to - The Origins and Scientific Failings of the COVID-19 'Bioweapon' Conspiracy Theory)

Did This Nobel Prize Winner Say COVID-19 Was Created in a Lab?
Keep in mind, the opinion of one person does not outweigh the consensus of the scientific community.

Keep in mind, the opinion of one person does not outweigh the consensus of the scientific community.

“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.”

In fact, a peer-reviewed study from the Scripps Research Institute that was published in the journal Nature in March 2020 found "no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered."

Did Giuliani Correctly Tweet That Wuhan Lab Got $3.7M from US in 2017?

the Wuhab lab in China" in 2017 — the site where the COVID-19 coronavirus originated, according to unfounded rumor, or "was created," according to conspiracy theory.

Did Chinese Virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan Say COVID-19 Was Made in a Wuhan Lab?

Controversial and outright false claims made by Chinese Virologist Dr. Li-Meng-Yan, a former post-doctoral student at Hong Kong University, reignited viral internet rumors surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 and the 2020 pandemic.

Yan did claim that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a lab, but the suggestion is false, misleading, and based on a non-peer-reviewed report that was published in two separate studies on Sept. 14 and Oct. 8 in the preprint server Zenodo, which means that the research had not gone through rigorous editorial critically evaluated by scientific experts with an extra degree of scrutiny. Research that has not been peer-reviewed is akin to a blog — anyone can publish one online with little expertise. A reviewed study, on the other hand, is on par with a well-vetted, expertly researched textbook.

“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.”

conspiracy theorists falsely maintain the COVID-19 pandemic originated.

Furthermore, claims that COVID-19 was "manufactured," or that it "escaped from" this Chinese lab, are nothing more than baseless conspiracy theories.

Did COVID-19 Originate in Market 400 Meters From CCP Lab Studying Coronaviruses?

The notion that a laboratory involved in coronavirus research exists in extreme proximity to the Huanan seafood market that was originally implicated in the initial spread of COVID-19 has been repeated ad nauseam since the start of the pandemic, despite its being demonstrably false.

COVID-19: Why the Lab Leak Theory Should Be Formally Investigated

A year and a half into the pandemic, we still do not know exactly where the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, came from. The prevailing view so far has been that the virus “spilled over” from bats into humans. But there are increasing calls to investigate the possibility that it emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, where Covid first appeared at the end of 2019.

DOE and FBI Say Lab Origin of COVID Is 'Most Likely' — But Won't Say Why