Trump’s Wuhan virus claims disproved
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named the coronavirus, the “Wuhan virus”, insisting that it originated in Wuhan, China, despite numerous scientific studies proving otherwise.
Trump has re-iterated in many media briefings that he believes the virus to have originated in Wuhan.
Trump’s relentless attack on China due to ulterior economic motives, has not only thrown scientific evidence to the curb, it has perpetrated violent worldwide xenophobic racism towards China.
His inflammatory remarks towards China have heightened tensions at a time where the global economy is already fragile, and on the brink of collapse.
Scientists around the world, including US researchers, have adamantly denounced Trump’s claims.
Internationally acclaimed infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony
Fauci, has stated that SarsCoV-2, the coronavirus also known as Covid-19, “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated”, proving Trump’s claims that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese lab to be entirely fictitious.
However, despite many scientists questioning the origin of Covid19, with reports of the coronavirus being present in France in December, questions have arisen over the precise origin of the virus.
Although many allege that the coronavirus originated from wildlife, Fauci said: “If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, what’s out there now is very, very strongly leaning towards that the coronavirus could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.”
The scientific evidence refuting the idea that the virus started in a lab in China shows it was impossible for the virus to have started as an act of biowarfare against the US.
A study by Alina Chan and Ben Deverman from the Broad Institute, a research unit, in conjunction with the University of British Columbia, stated that scientists are clear in their conclusions that the virus originated outside the Wuhan market.
The study further said: stated, “The publicly available genetic data do not point to cross-species transmission of the virus at the market.”
World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson, Fadela Chaib, further stated that all available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or anywhere else, also stating: “It most likely has its ecological reservoir in bats, but how the virus came from bats to humans is still to be seen and discovered.”