COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: Was SARS-CoV-2 Made in a Lab?
“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” —Andersen KM, et al. (2020) 1 COVID-19 Misinformation Under ongoing threat from a novel …
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The circulation of H5N1 bird flu in animals and limited infections in humans have motivated flu preparedness activities, such as stockpiling vaccines. Social media posts have baselessly implied that these efforts are evidence that a new laboratory-derived version of the virus is going to cause a pandemic — or even that there is a conspiracy to release bird flu from a lab.