Episode 2 of The Boma: Covid-19: Finding the origins of a pandemic

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Covid-19 has had the world at a stand-still since early last year and yet we are still trying to find out how the pandemic started. Did the virus come directly from a bat, a different wild animal, was it spread by frozen food, or was it even leaked from a lab?  A report published at the end of March by the World Health Organization and a joint team of scientists begins to unravel the mystery of the origins of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.  

Tim Offei-Addo sat down with Hung Nguyen-Viet, co-leader of the Animal and Human Health Program at ILRI, to discuss his experience traveling to Wuhan as part of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the pandemic.

Chapters

1.05  The four scenarios for the origin of the virus

2.29  Who was on the WHO team?

3.17  What did the WHO team do first in Wuhan?

5.27  What did the team do at the market in Wuhan?

9.01  What about the 'lab leak' theory?

12.56  What did the team conclude and why?

15.10  Where should the investigation go next?

 

 

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